Check it out (pdf). It’s a trifold design, with panels featuring my colleagues Matt Flamm, Shawn Klein, and me, the courses we teach, a list of famous philosophy majors in college, and more. Designed by Christopher Vaughan. (I want to live that library. Right now.)
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Philippa Foot’s career at Oxford spanned much of the sprawling twentieth-century. Foot came to be a champion of neo-Aristotelian ethics, in contrast to the schools of deontology and utilitarian consequentialism that held sway in much of the Anglo-American philosophical world. Her Natural Goodness (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001) was her last contribution to the discussion. Here
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This is a very good book: Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. I found it an exciting read, in part because I teach business ethics and philosophy of economics and I’m used to being immersed in the mainstream perspective, much of which
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For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized India’s economic life, yet India has transformed itself and prospects for its 1.1 billion people have improved dramatically. Economics professor Nimish Adhia recently spoke at Rockford College on how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for India’s economic liberalization to
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This is an excellent overview of the politicized economics, by Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz, along with an introduction by the excellent John Allison. The abstract: “The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful
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My full interview with Dr. Robert Bradley is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship site. Most journalistic accounts of the Enron mess focus on the accounting manipulations toward the end and miss the politicized business strategy and public-relations corporate culture that got Enron into trouble in the first place. Robert Bradley worked
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We’re reading Burton Folsom’s The Myth of the Robber Barons for my Business and Economic Ethics course. In the chapter on the Scrantons who built a formidable iron manufacture in the then-wilderness of northeastern Pennsylvania, there is a description of: “Another immigrant, John Jermyn, who came to Scranton in 1847 from England and began working
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Economics professor Nimish Adhia will give a talk at Rockford College on Friday, September 24. His theme will be India’s setting itself on the road to prosperity and how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for economic liberalization to occur. For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized
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