Springer’s Handbook of Business Ethics now online

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Springer’s massive 1,581-page Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics is now online. The multi-volume work covers business ethics from almost every conceivable perspective–Aristotelian, Marxist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Kantian, utilitarian, feminist, free market, and more. I contributed the essay entitled “Entrepreneurship and Ethics,” which appears on pages 1239-1246. Cite: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations […]

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Comparing Buenos Aires and Chicago over the 20th century

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A fascinating working paper by economists Filipe Campante and Edward Glaeser about two initially very similar cities with divergent paths over the last century. Here is their abstract: Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern

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Economists’ policy views and voting behavior

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Two economists report on survey results of professional economists’ policy views and voting from the mid-2000s, before the financial crisis hit. Their abstract: In Spring 2003, a survey of 1000 economists was conducted using a randomly generated membership list from the American Economics Association. The survey contained questions about 18 policy issues, voting behavior, and

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Full interview with entrepreneurs William and Winston Ling published

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Entrepreneurship in Brazil My full interview with entrepreneurs William and Winston Ling is now available online at CEE’s site. From the interview: “In the second half of 2010, everything was doing great: we were beating records year after year and expanding the business. Profitability was fine and the outlook was fine. But we sat down

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