This lecture was given in English to UFM’s Psychology Faculty in October 2024. Themes: Two anecdotes from the history of medicine * Why we live in revolutionary times * What an entrepreneurial mindset is * Why it’s essential for careers in this new era of robotics and AI * How entrepreneurism can re-focus one’s self-education and formal education.
Related: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Private Enterprise. Abstract:
“Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as an ethical phenomenon. Much contemporary business ethics assumes its core application purposes to be (1) to stop predatory business practices and (2) to encourage philanthropy and charity by business. Certainly predation is immoral and charity has a place in ethics, neither should be the first concerns of ethics. Instead, business ethics should make fundamental the values and virtues of entrepreneurs – i.e., those self-responsible and productive individuals who create value and trade with others to win-win advantage.”
Text in PDF. Digital. Audio version produced by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship: