Business Ethics

Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment [Open College series]

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The chemical leak at Love Canal informs our environmental thinking — but was it a government failure or a greedy-corporation failure? Audio link: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Good and bad news about Love Canal // Historical information // Consequences and the rise of environmental philosophy // Important facts // Who are the bad guys? // Bad-Corporations/Good-Government narrative […]

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Elizabeth Warren’s Plan — We’ve Seen This Before

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Consider this description of an economic system: “The economy is collectively managed by employers, workers and state officials by formal mechanisms at the national level. This non-elected form of state officializing of every interest will reduce the marginalization of singular interests. The system will recognize every divergent interest into the state organically, not meaning a

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society

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I was honored to be invited to be on the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, the latest and greatest reference volume in business ethics. The seven-volume production was edited by Robert W. Kolb and published this year by Sage. I also contributed three articles — on Trade, Politicization of Business,

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Timothy Sandefur on political versus market entrepreneurs — transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks; executive director for Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University and our guest today is Timothy Sandefur. Mr. Sandefur is senior staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation based Sacramento,

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Innovation Is Upsetting | Be Willing to Be Offended on a Regular Basis — with Professor Stephen Hicks

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My podcast on the Bill Murphy show is now up on these platforms: LinkedIn RedZone Blog Soundcloud iTunes Stitcher (for Droid users) A transcription is also available at the RedZone Blog link. Themes and questions: The humanities-universities’ shift from classical liberal education with focus on individual and his uniqueness to a post-modern outlook with focus on

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The Moral of Two Scandals — Enron and Ontario

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Ontario’s financial debts, as of 2018: “Ontario’s debt has ballooned to $312 billion, the biggest debt held by a subnational government anywhere in the world. Ontario owes twice as much as California, which has a population bigger than all of Canada.”[1] Enron’s debts as determined by its bankruptcy proceedings: “The company paid its creditors more

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Alexei Marcoux: What Is Entrepreneurship? [transcript]

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[This lecture is Part 1 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Defining Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept” I want to talk today about entrepreneurship and, in particular, its status as an essentially contested concept. By an essentially contested concept,

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