Is capitalism bad for art?
My theme will be the relationship between art and liberal cultures, focusing on economically free cultures especially.
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Kaizen Issue 8 published
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published its eighth issue of Kaizen [pdf], focusing on the theme of Education and Entrepreneurship. It features my interview with Steve Mariotti, founder of the excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization dedicated to providing entrepreneurship education to low-income youths. Also featured are guest speakers David Mayer,
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The Ethics of the Financial Crisis
I am organizing a session for on “The Ethics of the Financial Crisis” for the Association for Private Enterprise Education conference to be held April 11-13, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Hayek and Rand on reason
I am organizing a session for the Association for Private Enterprise Education conference to be held April 11-13, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme is “Reason in Hayek and Rand.” Here we have two giants of twentieth-century thought, but few comparative studies have been done. So as a start I have chosen Reason as
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In class: Semmelweis as epistemological hero
Prior to the discovery of germ theory and antiseptic, women frequently died of puerperal fever in the maternity ward at the University of Vienna Hospital. Enter Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian-born physician working at the Vienna hospital, one of the world’s leading medical establishments. Carl Hempel’s account of Semmelweis’s false starts, failed hypotheses, and eventual success
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The universe near us
Click on the image to see a larger map of the nearby universe, with us at the center. As described by Gregg Easterbrook: “The map contains about 100,000 dots. The dots are not stars; each dot represents a galaxy, and galaxies are thought to average about 100 billion stars each. Thus the area depicted contains
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I’m not my brother’s keeper
Let me tell you a little about my brother. He’s six feet tall and a solid 200 pounds. Has a wife and two kids. Works hard and plays hard, often outside in the winter. Am I his keeper? Should I think of myself that way? My brother is responsible, competent, and independent, and I know
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SSRN Top Ten List: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”
I received an email from the Social Science Research Network — the huge online database of scholarly journal essays in economics, law, management, and related fields — with the delightful subject line: “Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List.” The paper is my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], which was published in
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