My full Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Francesco Clark has been re-published, along with 15 other Kaizen interviews, in More Entrepreneurial Living: 16 More Stories of Innovation, Risk, and Achievement. The theme of the interview is Entrepreneurship and Overcoming Adversity, about which Clark is perfectly positioned to speak. At age 24 he became paralyzed from the […]
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… for the link to my Explaining Postmodernism. May my philosophical intellectual history rule Amazon sales this weekend. (And thanks to Hal Hollis for the pointer.)
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Alexei Marcoux of Loyola University Chicago spoke at Rockford College on whether ethics requires moral partiality or impartiality in business decision-making. Below is my follow-up sixteen-minute interview with Professor Marcoux. Along the way, we discuss nepotism, conflicts of interest, fiduciary obligations, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and contemporary business ethicist Norman Bowie. Part I: Part
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Elizabeth Warren’s recent remarks offer a striking glimpse into one prominent strain of American political thought.
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Professor Alexei Marcoux will be visiting from Loyola University Chicago, where is a professor of business ethics, to speak on moral partiality in business. Time and location information for his talk are in the enlargeable poster image. Alexei Marcoux is co-author wth Al Gini of a widely-used textbook in the field, Case Studies in Business
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I’m back from a two-day conference in Chicago on the theme of “Academic Entrepreneurship.” The sessions were helpful to me as someone who works to combine a traditional academic career with running an entrepreneurial center. So thanks to Dr. William Kline of the University of Illinois, Springfield, Dr. Matthew Brown of the Academy on Capitalism
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Douglas Den Uyl spoke at Rockford College on four competing (and/or compatible?) theories of the nature of capitalism: Milton Friedman’s “Utility” account, Friedrich Hayek’s “Epistemic” account, Adam Smith’s “Aesthetic” account, and Ayn Rand’s “Self-Fulfillment” account. Here is my sixteen-minute interview with Dr. Den Uyl following his lecture: Part 1: Part 2: Cross-posted at the CEE
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The Portuguese translation was published in Brazil, a Serbo-Croatian translation of the first chapter was published, and a new, expanded edition was published last month in Kindle and this month in a snazzy hardcover. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining Postmodernism, the reader may remain ill at
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