From May 23-25, I’ll be participating in a colloquium on “Virtues and Entrepreneurship,” organized by Sweden’s Ratio Institute. My talk 
will be an extension of the theme of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” arguing that the success traits of entrepreneurship map onto an updated Aristotelian virtue set. The conference will include keynote speeches by Deirdre McCloskey, author of The Bourgeois Virtues, and Saras Sarasvathy, author of Effectual Entrepreneurship.
A good place to articulate those virtues. A friend recently returned from visit to Sweden and said they’re cool people. Read someone else say the same – and that it was in spite of, not because of the welfare state. They have traditionally been a tolerant people with a strong work ethic.