Arnold Kling

Should we blame FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried for anything?

Reading up on the crypto-FTX bankruptcy and scandal. Four items of interest: The New York Times after-the-fact: “How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed.“ Before the scandal broke: “Stanford Law Profs’ Son Is A ‘Vegan Crypto Billionaire.’“ On of those Stanford law professors, Barbara Fried, wrote “Beyond Blame”, in which she argued that no one is […]

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Educando para o empreendedorismo

Educando para o empreendedorismo Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Rockford, Illinois, USA Tradução de Matheus Pacini. Introdução – visita de japoneses às escolas americanas Recentemente, um grupo de pesquisadores japoneses visitou os Estados Unidos para analisar seu sistema de ensino. O Japão é uma

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Educating for Entrepreneurship — working paper

The text is below and in PDF format. It’s also forthcoming in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. Educating for Entrepreneurship (Working Paper, June 2014) Stephen R.C. Hicks Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Rockford University Rockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators

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Entrepreneur and Un-entrepreneur characteristics

I’m a big fan of Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. I wrote about it here. It’s about Economics 2.0, as they call it, one key feature of which is putting the entrepreneur front and center — in contrast to much of

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From Poverty to Prosperity — Business and Economic ethics course

In my Business and Economic ethics course, we have started discussing Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. The book was re-issued in paperback with the title Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story of How Markets Work. As I wrote earlier, it’s a very

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Talk at Liberty Fund on art and free markets

Earlier this week I gave a talk in Indianapolis at the excellent Liberty Fund on whether free-market capitalism is good or bad for art. The question matters in today’s intellectual context because thinkers on both left and right argue regularly that art suffers under free market systems. Traditional conservatives such as Robert Bork and neo-conservatives

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