A new feature from the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Kaizen Weekly Review. Edited by Virginia Murr, the review highlights news in business ethics and entrepreneurship as well as CEE activities. This week’s inaugural edition features Shawn Klein on Lance Armstrong, Alexei Marcoux’s Business Ethics Journal Review, William Kline on Liberty Studies, entrepreneur Judy Estrin’s […]
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Is peace or war the natural state of man? Do men fight primarily over material possessions or over women? For decades anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon studied the Yanomamö, a remote tribe in South America, learning about their almost-constant warfare — and his findings put him in open conflict with academic anthropologists and the American Anthropological Association.
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Aspiring philosopher-queen Sarah O. Conly is an assistant professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College. A description of her Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012: “Against Autonomy is a defense of paternalistic laws; that is, laws that make you do things, or prevent you from doing things, for your own
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The great Rosling has published another dramatic set of visuals — this one on the great progress in reducing child mortality rates in the developing world. One more data-driven reason for optimism.
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I was interviewed by David Hutzelman on a variety of topics: entrepreneurial ethics, why business ethics should focus on the positive more than the negative, our cultural progress in developing institutions of trust and becoming comfortable with non-traditional social relationships. Here’s Part I of the interview: Update: The full interview is now available. In the
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In Japan, women are paying dentists to give them crooked teeth. The trend is driven partly by a pop group and, according to this explanation, wanting to enhance sexual attractiveness in the context of economic uncertainty: “The ‘girl next door’ look of accessibility and plainness is especially popular in Japan right now partly, I think,
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Here is Qoqnoos Publishing House’s page for the Persian translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The translation is by H. P. Safir. At right is the cover image. I am pleased, especially as Qoqnoos is one of Iran’s major publishers. Here is the information page for other editions and
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I interviewed Arielle John, an economist at Beloit College, Wisconsin, about the influence of culture on entrepreneurship. Professor John focuses her research on Trinidad, and she starts by noting striking differences in entrepreneurship rates among Trinidad’s ethnic groups. Her explanation invokes the distinction between Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, ethnic social networks, and Trinidad’s post-colonial political
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