The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Bad things happen in free markets. Some people lie, cut corners, commit fraud, and write bad checks. Others renege on contracts, offer or accept bribes, give kickbacks, embezzle, and more. “Often this translates into an argument for government regulation. Free markets maximize liberty, the argument runs, so they […]
Here is the PDF of my chapter “How Can We Make Entrepreneurs?”, which was published in Shawn Klein’s edited volume Steve Jobs and Philosophy (Open Court, 2015), pp. 53-66. Click on the image at left to see a larger view of the cover. My chapter begins by noting Steve Jobs’s troubles within the formal school
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Honestamente: você tem o que é preciso? Todos nós gostamos de pensar que somos mais espertos que a maioria, mas a matemática é cruel. Metade de nós está abaixo da inteligência média, e alguns de nós estão consideravelmente abaixo dela. Então, por que deveríamos pensar que a liberdade é uma boa política para todos? Eu acredito que
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This week I will be in lovely Buenos Aires to give a series of talks. I’ll be lecturing more formally at ESEADE university on themes out of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. My specific topic is “Did the Nazis Use or Abuse Nietzsche’s Philosophy?” (A Spanish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis may be in
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“Ayn Rand e a ética empresarial contemporânea” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Tradução pro Matheus Pacini Revisão por Vinicius Cintra 2015 The original journal article in English is available as a PDF here, online at the Social Science Research Network, in Kindle e-book format, and in a monograph edition from Amazon.com. Here are the four
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In English, here is Magdalena Wędzińska’s review [pdf] of the Polish edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The review is forthcoming in Polish in Forum Oświatowe, a leading Polish education periodical. Here is more information about other editions and translations of Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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In your book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, you portrayed Hegel as a great force of irrationalism, whose philosophy has contributed immensely to deteriorating rather than improving the human condition. The philosophy of Hegel has been on the rise in Iran in recent years. The idea behind this rising wave has
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Discriminação injusta e irracional no ambiente de trabalho merece denúncia e condenação. Mas e o que dizer da discriminação racional? Considere os seguintes casos. Você é gestor do comitê responsável pela contratação do novo presidente de uma faculdade historicamente composta por estudantes negros. Então, você discrimina em favor de candidatos negros e contra candidatos não negros. Você
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