13 argumentos para o capitalismo liberal em 13 minutos [texto]

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Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA 1º Argumento Primeiro, vamos definir nossos termos. Por “liberalismo” nos referimos a um conjunto de princípios que são institucionalizados. Os cientistas políticos falam desses princípios de forma sistemática. Entre eles está o Estado de Direito, isto é, […]

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The Love Canal Environmental Disaster — Four Decades Later [new “The Good Life” column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated,

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Corruption in Business — video lecture, 2014

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The video of a 50-minute talk I gave at the Atlas Summit in New Hampshire in June. Abstract: In a free market, some individuals will engage in corrupt business activities. One argument for government regulation holds that it reduces the amount of business corruption. Opponents of government regulation respond that free markets have the internal

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Our Che Guevara Problem [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Chances are good that someone you know owns a Che t-shirt. Romanticized versions of Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s bearded face are popular on campuses and elsewhere — so popular that the American chain store Urban Outfitters planned to release a whole line of Che-inspired fashion items, and dozens

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Where are all those free-market economists who caused the financial crisis? [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A common meme about the financial crisis blames it on capitalism run amok and holds the rise of free-market fundamentalism among economists responsible for unleashing the greed. Academic economists, the argument runs, are largely free-marketers, and they convinced politicians to deregulate important swathes of the American economy,

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Who Really Wants to Solve the Problem of Poverty? [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Let me share with you the most impressive number of our generation: 600 million. “That is how many people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Never before in history have so many raised themselves to a minimum level of comfort. “The

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