I’m back from a two-day conference in Chicago on the theme of “Academic Entrepreneurship.” The sessions were helpful to me as someone who works to combine a traditional academic career with running an entrepreneurial center. So thanks to Dr. William Kline of the University of Illinois, Springfield, Dr. Matthew Brown of the Academy on Capitalism
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Douglas Den Uyl spoke at Rockford College on four competing (and/or compatible?) theories of the nature of capitalism: Milton Friedman’s “Utility” account, Friedrich Hayek’s “Epistemic” account, Adam Smith’s “Aesthetic” account, and Ayn Rand’s “Self-Fulfillment” account. Here is my sixteen-minute interview with Dr. Den Uyl following his lecture: Part 1: Part 2: Cross-posted at the CEE
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The Portuguese translation was published in Brazil, a Serbo-Croatian translation of the first chapter was published, and a new, expanded edition was published last month in Kindle and this month in a snazzy hardcover. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining Postmodernism, the reader may remain ill at
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Dr. Douglas Den Uyl will speak on “The Essence of Capitalism” to my Business and Economic Ethics class on Thursday. Please see the flyer for details. Den Uyl received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University and is currently Vice-President of Educational Programs at Liberty Fund, Indianapolis. Among his many publications are The Virtue of
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Important 20-minute talk for aspiring entrepreneurs: “Release your Inner Company.” Also check out my fun and informative Kaizen interview with Chisholm.
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I’m happy to announce that the Portuguese translation of my Explaining Postmodernism has been published in Brazil by Callis Editora. Here are links to Callis’s website in Portuguese and English. I will check into the availability of the book outside Brazil and follow up.
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Edward Snider is CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, a company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where the teams play, and several other sports-related businesses. For his many accomplishments in his hockey career, Snider was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame this month. My Kaizen interview
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I was interviewed by Jeanne Hoffman for Kosmos Online about my work in starting the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. The theme of the podcast is academic entrepreneurship and what goes into starting a new center or institute. Kosmos is a project of IHS for classical liberal academics.
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