Dr. Douglas Den Uyl will speak on “The Essence of Capitalism” to my Business and Economic Ethics class on Thursday. Please see the flyer for details. Den Uyl received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University and is currently Vice-President of Educational Programs at Liberty Fund, Indianapolis. Among his many publications are The Virtue of […]
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Important 20-minute talk for aspiring entrepreneurs: “Release your Inner Company.” Also check out my fun and informative Kaizen interview with Chisholm.
John Chisholm at TEDx Read More »
I’m happy to announce that the Portuguese translation of my Explaining Postmodernism has been published in Brazil by Callis Editora. Here are links to Callis’s website in Portuguese and English. I will check into the availability of the book outside Brazil and follow up.
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Edward Snider is CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, a company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where the teams play, and several other sports-related businesses. For his many accomplishments in his hockey career, Snider was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame this month. My Kaizen interview
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I was interviewed by Jeanne Hoffman for Kosmos Online about my work in starting the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. The theme of the podcast is academic entrepreneurship and what goes into starting a new center or institute. Kosmos is a project of IHS for classical liberal academics.
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In a recent Huffington Post piece entitled “Teaching Capitalism in the Last Days of the USSR,” Steve Mariotti discusses his experience teaching business and capitalism to young people during the final days of the Soviet Union. Fascinating. I interviewed Mariotti for Kaizen on his excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Before founding NFTE, Mariotti was
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The new semester begins next week, so it’s time to rev up the posting. To mark the transition, here is an image from my restful summer vacation.
Farewell to summer 2011 Read More »
Alma Causevic has translated the first chapter of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The Kindle version of the expanded edition came out last month and the hardcover will be out later this month.
Serbo-Croatian translation of Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism Read More »