Há boas chances de que você conheça alguém que possui uma camiseta de Che Guevara. Versões romantizadas de sua cara barbuda são populares nos campi e em outros lugares — tão popular que a rede de lojas Urban Outfitters planejava lançar uma linha completa de itens de moda inspirada em Che, e dezenas de outros […]
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This interview could be subtitled Entrepreneurship from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego to Houston and Bolivia and more. Guillermo “Billy” Yeatts has had a colorful career, first working as an analyst for Citibank in New York and an executive for Ford in Detroit and Massey Ferguson in Argentina before launching his own entrepreneurial businesses
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Chances are good that someone you know owns a Che t-shirt. Romanticized versions of Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s bearded face are popular on campuses and elsewhere — so popular that the American chain store Urban Outfitters planned to release a whole line of Che-inspired fashion items, and dozens
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The Spanish translation has been published in Buenos Aires by Barbarroja Ediciones with the title Explicando el Pósmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo. The official release will be in November 2014, to coincide with my trip to Argentina to give some lectures and seminars. Here’s a sneak preview of the lively front and back covers (click
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The new academic year is beginning, and here is my line-up for the first semester: September 4: Santiago de Chile, Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Chile. Topic: “Philosophy, Education, and Entrepreneurship.” September 18-21: Tucson, Arizona, Liberty Fund Seminar. Topic: “Is the Decline of Liberty Inevitable?” October 10-11: University of Illinois, Springfield. Topic: “Thirteen Arguments for
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Educando para o empreendedorismo Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Rockford, Illinois, USA Tradução de Matheus Pacini. Introdução – visita de japoneses às escolas americanas Recentemente, um grupo de pesquisadores japoneses visitou os Estados Unidos para analisar seu sistema de ensino. O Japão é uma
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The text is below and in PDF format. It’s also forthcoming in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. Educating for Entrepreneurship (Working Paper, June 2014) Stephen R.C. Hicks Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Rockford University Rockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators
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In The Wall Street Journal, David Luhnow contrasts “The Two Latin Americas” — one oriented to the Atlantic and statism and the other oriented to the Pacific and markets. “In 2014, the Pacific Alliance trade bloc (consisting of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile) is slated to grow an average of 4.25%, boosted by high levels
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In a recent Kaizen interview, Argentine entrepreneur Enrique Duhau discussed some of the challenges of doing business in a country with a politicized economy. I was reminded of Campante and Glaeser’s comparative study of Buenos Aires and Chicago, two cities that were very similar in the nineteenth century. They were similar in population size, with
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At the CEE site, my full interview with entrepreneurial agriculturalist Enrique Duhau. Be sure to read about how his first business was wiped out by a tornado, how he competed successfully against smugglers, and how he built his family’s agriculture business into one of Argentina’s largest. From the introduction: Enrique Duhau is President of Administración
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