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“Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter published

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I contributed the “Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter to editor Christoph Luetge’s Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (Springer Science+Business Media, 2013). Abstract: Much of the current business ethics literature takes corporations and social responsibility as its key operative concepts. Meanwhile, much of the business and economics literature is moving to seeing entrepreneurship as […]

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Talk on conflicts and harmonies of interest

Were the Modernist painters misogynist?

3 Comments / Art / Stephen Hicks

Some initial evidence for your consideration: paintings from Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, and de Kooning. At a TRAC conference in Ventura, I heard an intriguing talk by Kay Kane, professor of drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Kane’s talk was based partly on (and partly diverged from) Wendy Steiner’s Venus in Exile (University

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Joining the Atlas Society’s Board of Advisors

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The Atlas Society has a new CEO this year, Aaron Day. This press release announces Day’s appointment and background. The release also lists the names of those of us on the newly-constituted Board of Advisors: Ed Crane President, Cato Institute Steve Davis Director of Advanced Projects, SpaceX R. Paul Drake Professor of Physics, University of

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UW conference: the moral and legal status of gun ownership

3 Comments / Politics / Stephen Hicks

The Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is presenting a day-long conference on the moral and legal status of gun ownership today. GUNS IN AMERICA: Conflicting Points of View Gun ownership by private citizens is one of the most hotly debated issues in America today. What

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Philosophy and Film Series: Blade Runner

2 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

The Philosophy and Film Series presents the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date: October 11 Place: Severson Auditorium, Scarborough Hall, Rockford College Time: Screening at

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Joining Heartland Institute’s board of advisors

Marxists and violence

12 Comments / Politics / Stephen Hicks

Following up on a series of recent posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one

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