Selected U.S. statistics: 73.1 life expectancy at birth for women in 1960 79.7 life expectancy at birth for women in 1999 80.5 life expectancy at birth for women in 2020 66.6 life expectancy at birth for men in 1960 74.1 life expectancy at birth for men in 1999 75.1 life expectancy at birth for men
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Lo que la Ética Empresarial Puede Aprender del Emprendimiento Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. …la ética empresarial debería fundamentarse en los valores y las virtudes de los emprendedores, es decir, esos individuos productivos y responsables por sí mismos que crean valor e intercambian con otras personas para mutuo beneficio… Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English. Portuguese Translation
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In this week on the Waterfall course on Socialism: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism”. Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was the most distinguished American academic socialist of the 20th century. In this article, written after the fall of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner argues as a social scientist that socialists must diagnose accurately the failings of socialist experiments in order to correct
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Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society interviews senior scholar Stephen Hicks on Black Lives, Matter, Covid, postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and varieties of racism. This interview and Q&A was first published at YouTube in 2020. Below is a transcription. SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Racism, postmodernism, individualism, Marxism, reparations, capitalism, justice, institutional racism, Black Lives Matter SPEAKERS: Jennifer
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Image of the letter and a transcription below: Fallowfield, Manor Road, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England. April 28th, 1970 Dear Professor Aron, Many thanks for your letter of April 15th. I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking. I have translated some of their German sentences
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Episode 54 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Marx and Engels claimed their communism was “scientific socialism.” What do they mean by “scientific”? Were they sincere, or does their apparent logic cover for an essentially religious vision? Title: Socialism: Scientific or Religious?Date: September 2021Transcript: Forthcoming All audio versions of the podcast
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My long-form conversation with Marsha Enright, President of The Great Connections. A transcription is forthcoming.
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I appreciate very much this comment from David Sabo, in response to my conversation with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. My job is to get students up to speed on the issues, the major arguments and counter-arguments, and so to put them in a position to make informed judgments for themselves. And while
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