I’ll be speaking in Curitiba at Saturday’s Students for Liberty conference. My topic is “Progress and Betrayal: The Responsibilities of Latin American Intellectuals.” Thanks to the dynamic Juliano Torres, André Freo, and Matheus Pacini for everything they did to help make this possible.
Students for Liberty conference, Curitiba, Brazil — talk tomorrow Read More »
First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated, and suffered large losses of property value. Now
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My essay “Educating for Entrepreneurship” has been translated into Polish as “Edukacja dla przedsiębiorczości” and published in the journal Przeglad Pedagogiczny 2015, Numer 1. Abstract: Jak najlepiej możemy pomóc młodym ludziom w nabraniu postawy przedsiębiorczości -– przygotować ich czy to do zainicjowania własnego biznesu, czy to do bycia przedsiębiorczymi w ramach istniejących firm, czy też
Edukacja dla przedsiębiorczości — Polish translation Read More »
I’ve joined the Academic Advisory Committee of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. From August 1-3, the GCGI will be holding its 3rd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance in Cologne, Germany.
Announcement: Global Corporate Governance Institute Read More »
Chances are good that someone you know owns a Che t-shirt. Romanticized versions of Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s bearded face are popular on campuses and elsewhere — so popular that the American chain store Urban Outfitters planned to release a whole line of Che-inspired fashion items, and dozens of other websites offer a wide range of
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On April 12 I will be speaking (in English) at the 29th Fórum da Liberdade in Porto Alegre. Here’s the list of speakers. Before that, on April 10, I will be speaking at the Conferência Atlantos, and on April 11, I will be talking at the Pan American High School on the theme of being
Brazil lecture tour, April 2016 Read More »
This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Summary 96 issues included as of April 2016. Agreements: 19 Disagreements: 70 Semi-agree/ disagree: 7 Of the agreements: Negative agreements: 8 Positive agreements: 11 Bibliography Nietzsche’s works cited Rand’s works cited A The Antichrist
Nietzsche and Rand: 96 Similarities and Differences Read More »
A common meme about the financial crisis blames it on capitalism run amok and holds the rise of free-market fundamentalism among economists responsible for unleashing the greed. Academic economists, the argument runs, are largely free-marketers, and they convinced politicians to deregulate important swathes of the American economy, and the unbridled capitalists then engaged in a