Something to be thankful for: All those productive people who created the wealth that has enable so many of us to live longer and more fully. I love this data map from Gapminder correlating life expectancy with wealth (click for full size): And encouraging numbers over at Forbes (via R.M.): Avik Roy looks at cancer […]
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My review essay on Donald Frey’s America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics (SUNY Press, 2009) is now out in Business Ethics Quarterly. Subscribers to BEQ can access the issue here. Cite: Hicks, Stephen R. C. 2012. “Review of Donald Frey’s America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics.” Business
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The latest rankings of the Top 400 Universities in the World, 2011-2012. A breakdown of their locations by country followed by some explanatory questions: Top 10: United States 7 United Kingdom 3 Top 20: USA 14 UK 4 Canada 1 Switzerland 1 Top 100: USA 51 UK 12 Canada 5 Australia 4 Netherlands 4 Germany
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… is online here at Francisco Marroquín University’s site. While at UFM, I visited the rare book library and got to hold an original copy of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Awesome.
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I finished my Ph.D. dissertation. Tempus fugit. Looking back, I’m happy with the content, though the writing style is high academese. (As they say, dissertations are written for committees not human beings.)
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I was interviewed recently by Prodos Marinakis, Secretary of the Australian Council of Film Societies, on the theme “Two Views on Cinema & Capitalism.” From the interview’s description: “The highly articulate pioneers and founders of the Film Society Movement of Australia, like Ken Coldicutt of Melbourne and Beatrice Tildesley of Sydney, were critical of Capitalism
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The philosophy of Left-ish people is that economic decisions should be political, not private — made by government rather than by the market. Lefties also believe that public interest, not profitability, should be the criterion. The response to the financial crisis was: a) made in the political sector, b) to help firms that were not
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In this 17-minute video, Dr. Alexei Marcoux explains three competing theories of entrepreneurship–Schumpeter’s, Knight’s, and Kirzner’s. For more information: Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, and Israel Kirzner. Dr. Marcoux’s lecture is part of the Entrepreneurship and Values series. Other lecturers in the six-part series include Terry Noel, Stephen Hicks, William Kline, and Robert Salvino. The video
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