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The Entrepreneurial Process — my 10-minute lecture

3 Comments / Entrepreneurship / Stephen Hicks

What makes entrepreneurs tick? Creative knowledge, ambition, initiative, trial and error, perseverance, and more. This mini lecture is part of a new series of short, instructional lectures on entrepreneurship. Related: My nine-page journal essay, “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] (Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring 2009, 49-57. Also available at the Social […]

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Save the economy in 7 easy steps (and have fun while doing it!)

2 Comments / Humor, Politics / Stephen Hicks

When I was young, I believed in freedom and self-responsibility. Over the years, my professional colleagues have insisted that attitude is not in keeping with state-of-the-art public policy. They have taught me that leadership requires the use of any and all legislative tools to solve society’s problems. Bowing to their collective wisdom, here is my

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The Encyclopédie and I

1 Comment / Fruits of the Enlightenment, History / Stephen Hicks

One of the great publishing events in all of history was the French Encyclopédie of the eighteenth century, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D’Alembert. It was a massive project: many authors, 71,818 articles and 3,129 illustrations, published in 28 volumes over 25 years. During my working visit to Guatemala, Luis Figueroa took

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An impression of Panama

Leave a Comment / Economics, News, Technology / Stephen Hicks

On my trip home from Brazil, I had a lengthy layover in Panama, made enjoyable by two fun and smart young people who took me to the canal (awesome) and to lunch at a Panamanian fusion restaurant. Tasty — I’d never had fried plantain before. I was struck by Panama City’s skyline — it’s experiencing

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Owning “postmodernism” at Amazon

Leave a Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Three of my items are now in the top ten on postmodernism at Amazon Kindle: * The first edition of Explaining Postmodernism has dropped from first to second. * The expanded edition has dropped from fifth to seventh. Too sad. * But my essay on Free Speech and Postmodernism is now up to tenth. (The

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Chicago’s free-market reputation

1 Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

I was surprised by this from Lanny Ebenstein’s biography, Milton Friedman: “Neither historically nor in his time to the present has the political orientation of Chicago’s Department of Economics been mostly free market. In a 1991 article on Laughlin, the first head of economics at Chicago, Friedman writes that the department had always had ‘prominent

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More on Brazil

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, News / Stephen Hicks

Following up on my Fórum da Libertade experience, here is a feature in Zero Hora newspaper, with mini-interviews and comments from me, Tom Palmer, Eduardo Marty, and several others. While in Brazil I also interviewed two entrepreneurs for upcoming issues of Kaizen and participated in a conference on Shirley Robin Letwin’s On the History of

“Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” at JARS

Leave a Comment / Ethics, Film, History of Philosophy, Literature, Philosophy of History / Stephen Hicks

My lengthy journal article entitled “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” [pdf] is now publicly available for free at the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies‘ site. The abstract: “Philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand are often identified as strong critics of altruism and arch advocates of egoism. In this essay, Stephen Hicks argues that Nietzsche and

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Brazil Fórum da Libertade report

Leave a Comment / Education, Entrepreneurship / Stephen Hicks

I spoke on Educating for Entrepreneurship at the Fórum da Libertade in Porto Alegre, Brazil this week. Over 4,500 people attended the two-day conference with many high profile Brazilian business, cultural, and political leaders. My talk was one of two in a panel on the theme of Education: Obey, Think, or Create? The panel was

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Profiles in Liberty: Douglas Den Uyl

1 Comment / Philosophy, Politics / Stephen Hicks

In this extended interview, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl responds to a series of questions about his life and work. Den Uyl is the author of many works. His latest book, co-authored with Douglas Rasmussen, is Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics. Why did you become a philosopher? [0:19] Where did you get

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