A educação superior pode ser um caminho para uma vida bem-sucedida. Ainda assim, muitas pessoas bem-sucedidas não se formaram na faculdade e muitas pessoas malsucedidas têm notas surpreendentemente boas. Então, quem deveria ir para a faculdade? E quem deveria pagar por isso? Vamos começar por imaginar um estudante mediano que deseja ir para a faculdade, […]
Cobrar mensalidades nas faculdades é uma questão moral Read More »
O que explica as diferenças dramáticas de desempenho econômico entre as duas Américas? Considere os números do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) disponibilizados pelo Banco Mundial — uma medida de sucesso econômico. Nós queremos que as pessoas tenham um nível de vida adequado, especialmente as pobres. E se formos ambiciosos, queremos que as pessoas tenham um
Por que a América do Norte é mais rica que a América Latina? Read More »
Overnight on December 2-3, 1984, the worst industrial accident in history began. Thirty-one years later, what should we have learned? The Bhopal Chemical Spill Disaster: Who’s to Blame?
The lesson of the Bhopal disaster Read More »
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. “First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on
Campus Power Politics — It’s Calculated Strategy [new The Good Life column] Read More »
Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks, here at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Dr. David R. Henderson, an economist visiting from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Henderson is the author of many books and articles,
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Over ten years ago, some of us were complaining that the postmodern art world had become repetitive — and worse, boring — as it was merely recycling the same old tropes about nothingness and waste products. Two images making the social-media rounds this week: Nothing in Paris: Rectal explorations in São Paulo: So I repeat:
The State of the Art World, late 2015 edition Read More »
Clemson University professor C. Bradley Thompson has a good article answering the question “Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?” It prompts me to post here my remarks from 2008, then published as “The Ethics of Outside Funding” [pdf]. The text follows: THE ETHICS OF OUTSIDE FUNDING Stephen R. C. Hicks Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
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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 »