I will be giving a public talk on March 20 in Buenos Aires, as well as participating in two sessions on logic and art. The public talk is sponsored by Fundación Libertad y Progreso, Fundación Atlas 1853, and Fundación Junior Achievement Argentina. See the poster at right for details. While in Buenos Aires, I will […]
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I’ve started reading Guillermo M. Yeatts’s 2010 Plunder in Latin America. Yeatts lists thirteen American countries’ per capita GDP in 2008 US dollars, first alphabetically by country: Argentina 8,281 Bolivia 1,948 Brazil 8,379 Canada 46,826 Chile 10,933 Colombia 5,478 Cuba 4,840 Ecuador 3,770 Mexico 10,278 Peru 4,454 Uruguay 8,942 USA 46,647 Venezuela 4,315 I re-arranged
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On February 26, Professor Marta Podemska-Mikluch will be speaking on the topic of “Succession, Elections, and Self-Governance.” Professor Podemska-Mikluch, a native of Poland and a graduate of George Mason University in Virginia, is currently teaching in the Department of Economics at Beloit College, Wisconsin.
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In 1998, President Bill Clinton announced: “We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say Government is the problem and those who say Government is the solution. My fellow Americans, we have found a Third Way.”[1] Third Way politics became popular in the 1990s after the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Socialists
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A new feature from the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Kaizen Weekly Review. Edited by Virginia Murr, the review highlights news in business ethics and entrepreneurship as well as CEE activities. This week’s inaugural edition features Shawn Klein on Lance Armstrong, Alexei Marcoux’s Business Ethics Journal Review, William Kline on Liberty Studies, entrepreneur Judy Estrin’s
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Aspiring philosopher-queen Sarah O. Conly is an assistant professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College. A description of her Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012: “Against Autonomy is a defense of paternalistic laws; that is, laws that make you do things, or prevent you from doing things, for your own
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The great Rosling has published another dramatic set of visuals — this one on the great progress in reducing child mortality rates in the developing world. One more data-driven reason for optimism.
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I was interviewed by David Hutzelman on a variety of topics: entrepreneurial ethics, why business ethics should focus on the positive more than the negative, our cultural progress in developing institutions of trust and becoming comfortable with non-traditional social relationships. Here’s Part I of the interview: Update: The full interview is now available. In the
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