ethics and entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics

In this 21-minute video lecture, Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics, I connect the success traits of entrepreneurs (e.g., initiative, guts, win-win trade, and so on) with moral virtues (e.g., integrity, courage, justice, and so on). My thesis is that what is practical in business and what is moral are tightly integrated — in contrast to the […]

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SSRN Top Ten List: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

I received an email from the Social Science Research Network — the huge online database of scholarly journal essays in economics, law, management, and related fields — with the delightful subject line: “Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List.” The paper is my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], which was published in

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“What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” — text and audio versions

My essay on “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] was published in the Journal of Private Enterprise, edited by Edward Peter Stringham. The article is a relatively brief nine pages. The abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as an ethical phenomenon.

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