Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Guest speaker video interviews — new location

Yahoo! Video has shut down, so all CEE videos are now hosted at YouTube.

Here are the speakers, topics, and new URLs. (Thanks to Chris Vaughan for performing the gargantuan task of transferring the material.)

Anil Singh-Molares on Microsoft and entrepreneurship.
Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur.
Emily Chamlee-Wright on non-profits and the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
Steven Horwitz on Wal-Mart to the rescue after Hurricane Katrina.
David Mayer on Thomas Jefferson, Part I and Part II.
C. Bradley Thompson on John Adams, Part I and Part II.
Timothy Sandefur on market entrepreneurs, political entrepreneurs, and the Constitution, Part I and Part II.
David Mayer on Constitutional Interpretation, Part I and Part II.
C. Bradley Thompson on Neoconservatism, Part I and Part II.
Jerry Kirkpatrick on Philosophy’s Importance to Business, Part I and Part II.
Jerry Kirkpatrick on Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism.
Jerry Kirkpatrick in defense of advertising, Part I and Part II.
Joshua Hall on educational reform.

Here is the full list of my video interviews with guest speakers.

Timothy Sandefur’s new book

Should one be free to drive a taxi in Miami? Apparently not. The city government of Miami controls the number of taxi cabs and, as of 2002, had decided that only 1,856 taxi licenses shall exist. When a license becomes available, it is sold via lottery. But to participate in the lottery one must pay the city a nonrefundable $400 fee, and if one wins one must pay an additional $15,000 for the license.

So what is the state of the right to earn a living in Miami?

A very good question, which Timothy Sandefur takes up in The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law. Sandefur is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, California.

Sandefur is also the author of To Pursue and Obtain Happiness and Safety, an excellent essay-length version of the themes expanded upon in his new book.

Sandefur spoke at Rockford College in 2009. Here is my interview with him based on his talk.

Count me a fan.

Timothy Sandefur on law and economic liberty

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has produced a monograph version of Timothy Sandefur’s To Pursue and Obtain Happiness and Safety, now available at cost at Amazon. In the monograph, Sandefur discusses economic liberty’s up-and-down legal fortunes, as the American founders’ original protections of productive freedom, property and contract rights came under attack during the Progressive era and the New Deal, leading up to our own era of mixed premises and politicized business.

Sandefur spoke last semester at Rockford College on the topic of “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues.” He is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, California, and the author of Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America.

My two-part video interview with Sandefur after his talk is viewable at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site.

Interview with Timothy Sandefur

Timothy Sandefur gave a talk at Rockford College on September 16 on “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues.” Mr. Sandefur is Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation in California. His talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.

In the following two-part interview after his talk, I speak with Mr. Sandefur about the contrasting views of the Founding Fathers and the Progressives on liberty, democracy, and human rights, how the Progressive agenda has led to an increase in political entrepreneurship, and philosophy’s role in reforming in our politicized economic system.

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Part II:

This interview is also available at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

CEE video interviews

In my capacity as Executive Director of CEE, I have been fortunate to interview several of our expert guest speakers. We began the video interview series at the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year, and so far we have published interviews with six of our speakers:

Entrepreneur Anil Singh-Molares on entrepreneurship, the liberal arts, and the global marketplace.

Dr. Terry Noel on the virtuous entrepreneur.

Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright on New Orleans’ non-profit sector’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Steven Horwitz on Wal-Mart’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. C. Bradley Thompson on founding father John Adams.

Dr. David N. Mayer on Thomas Jefferson.

Dr. C. Bradley Thompson on his forthcoming book on Leo Strauss and the neo-conservatives.

Dr. David Mayer on Freedom’s Constitution, his forthcoming book on U.S. Constitutional interpretation.

Forthcoming: Attorney Timothy Sandefur on market entrepreneurs, political entrepreneurs, and the American legal and political landscape.

The videos are also available at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. Credit also goes to CEE’s Christopher Vaughan, who shoots and edits the interviews. Nice work, Chris.

Fall 2009 guest speakers

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and the Department of Philosophy have an intellectually-stimulating line-up of guest speakers [pdf] this fall semester:

On September 16, Timothy Sandefur will be speaking on “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues.” Sandefur is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, California.

Jerry Kirkpatrick will be giving two talks: “The Importance of Philosophy to a Successful Business Career” on October 27 and “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers” on October 28. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business & Marketing at California State Polytechnic University

Joshua Hall will also be giving two talks on the theme of “The Dilemma of School Finance Reform,” one on October 13 and one on November 11. Hall is Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College and on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research.

For more details, please see the flyer [pdf]. Admission is free and open to the public.

Sandefur reviews Anne Heller on Ayn Rand

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I haven’t read Anne Heller’s book, but Timothy Sandefur’s review makes me want to. (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.)
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