Lawyer Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation is guest blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy. In 2009, Sandefur spoke at Rockford University on on the topic of “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues”; my follow-up interview with him is at the CEE site. He is the author of several works, including […]
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The documentary airs in January on PBS stations nationwide. Here are the press releases from Joshua Hall’s West Virginia University and Robert Lawson’s Southern Methodist University. Professor Lawson spoke at Rockford University on economic freedom, and Professor Hall spoke here on education reform. Both talks were sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.
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For my “13 Arguments for Liberal Capitalism in 13 Minutes (more or less)”, here are direct links for each individual argument: 1. Liberal capitalism increases freedom. 2. People work harder in liberal capitalist systems. 3. People work smarter under liberal capitalism. 4. Liberalism increases individuality and creativity. 5. Liberal capitalism increases the average standard of
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My full interview with Panama’s Surse Pierpoint is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. The theme of the interview is Entrepreneurial Logistics in Panama. An abbreviated version was published last month in Kaizen. Be sure to read about how conquering malaria enabled the successful effort to build the Panama Canal early
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In The Wall Street Journal, David Luhnow contrasts “The Two Latin Americas” — one oriented to the Atlantic and statism and the other oriented to the Pacific and markets. “In 2014, the Pacific Alliance trade bloc (consisting of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile) is slated to grow an average of 4.25%, boosted by high levels
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The Polish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis will be published in March of 2014. The publisher is Foundation Fuhrmann. Many thanks to Przemysław Zientkowski of Nicholas Copernicus University for arranging this translation and publication. I’ll post again about availability when the book is out officially.
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Updated my Intellectual History page to reflect recent posting.
My top 13 posts for 2013, according to my site’s statistics generator: 1. European country data on the minimum wage. 2. Defining Modernism and Postmodernism chart. 3. Collectivizing sex — Alexandra Kollontai’s communist version. 4. Galileo and the modern compromise. 5. Lessons from the Bhopal chemical-spill disaster. 6. 13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13
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