I hereby announce a contest: What is the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher? The kind of sentence that, as you are reading it through — trying to hold the context and decipher the meaning — flows majestically onwards, or meanders along deceptively, with occasional side streams (and parenthetical remarks), until your cerebrum is […]
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My essay on “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] was published in the Journal of Private Enterprise, edited by Edward Peter Stringham. The article is a relatively brief nine pages. The abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as an ethical phenomenon.
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Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version
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My ten-minute interview at CEE with Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright on her research on entrepreneurship and the non-profit sector in post-Katrina New Orleans. More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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