Entrepreneurship

What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship — audio version

Leave a Comment / Philosophy /

Here’s a 21-minute audiobook version of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” first published in print in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Other audio editions: Article: “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” (JARS, 2009). Book: Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010). Review: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship — audio version Read More »

Audio edition of “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship /

My essay [pdf] was first published in 2009 in Journal of Private Enterprise. Here is the 21-minute audio edition in MP3 format or at YouTube. It’s also available at Amazon, and in Serbo-Croatian, Spanish [PDF] and Portuguese translations: [PDF] or [HTML]. Related: All of my audio editions, including my Open College podcast series.

Audio edition of “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” Read More »

Timothy Sandefur on political versus market entrepreneurs — transcript

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship /

Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks; executive director for Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University and our guest today is Timothy Sandefur. Mr. Sandefur is senior staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation based Sacramento,

Timothy Sandefur on political versus market entrepreneurs — transcript Read More »

Innovation Is Upsetting | Be Willing to Be Offended on a Regular Basis — with Professor Stephen Hicks

1 Comment / Business Ethics, Culture, Entrepreneurship /

My podcast on the Bill Murphy show is now up on these platforms: LinkedIn RedZone Blog Soundcloud iTunes Stitcher (for Droid users) A transcription is also available at the RedZone Blog link. Themes and questions: The humanities-universities’ shift from classical liberal education with focus on individual and his uniqueness to a post-modern outlook with focus on

Innovation Is Upsetting | Be Willing to Be Offended on a Regular Basis — with Professor Stephen Hicks Read More »

Alexei Marcoux: What Is Entrepreneurship? [transcript]

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship /

[This lecture is Part 1 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Defining Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept” I want to talk today about entrepreneurship and, in particular, its status as an essentially contested concept. By an essentially contested concept,

Alexei Marcoux: What Is Entrepreneurship? [transcript] Read More »

Entrepreneurship and Values — seven short lectures

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Politics /

CEE’s Entrepreneurship and Values series includes seven 15-20-minute lectures on foundational issues in entrepreneurship. 1. What Is Entrepreneurship? 2. Unleash Your Inner Company 3. Management and Entrepreneurship 4. What Makes Entrepreneurs Tick? 5. Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics 6. Entrepreneurship and Liberty 7. Entrepreneurship and Public Policy The lecturers are all entrepreneurs or university professors —

Entrepreneurship and Values — seven short lectures Read More »

William Kline on entrepreneurship and liberty

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Economics, Entrepreneurship /

Dr. William Kline is professor of philosophy and business at the University of Illinois, Springfield. In this 14-minute video lecture on “Entrepreneurship and Liberty” Professor Kline discusses the relationship between liberty and entrepreneurship. He explains how laws, culture, and economic regulation can infringe upon the freedom of entrepreneurs and inhibit their abilities to innovate. He stresses

William Kline on entrepreneurship and liberty Read More »

The Entrepreneurial Process — my 10-minute lecture

3 Comments / Entrepreneurship /

What makes entrepreneurs tick? Creative knowledge, ambition, initiative, trial and error, perseverance, and more. This mini lecture is part of a new series of short, instructional lectures on entrepreneurship. Related: My nine-page journal essay, “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] (Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring 2009, 49-57. Also available at the Social

The Entrepreneurial Process — my 10-minute lecture Read More »