Archive for Douglas B. Rasmussen
Visible and Invisible Hands
Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University . They co-wrote Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (Pennsylvania State University Press). It has often been said that markets are led “as if by an invisible hand” to [...]
1Apr2007 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Moral and Cultural Climate of Entrepreneurship
About 40 years ago I learned the following poem. It exemplifies a moral and cultural attitude about not only entrepreneurship, but also the moral purpose of human life itself. Written by Dean Alfange, it is known simply as “My Creed”: I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be [...]
1Mar2006 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 0 comments | ContinuedAyn Rand and Business
What sort of book is this? Perhaps the best answer is to say that an alternate title could be: Ayn Rand for Dummies. Indeed, that might be a better title, for the book is a very elementary introduction to Rand and her thought. It is well written and organized, providing an accurate account of the [...]
16Mar2003 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Insights for Business Ethics
Dr. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in New York City. Business ethics does not stand by itself. It depends in large measure on the insights of political philosophy and ethics. Of course, it is not possible to do everything at once, and works in business ethics cannot be expected to deal [...]
1May1995 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 1 comment | ContinuedRights, Law, and Morality
Dr. Douglas B. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University and co-author of Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (Open Court, 1991). “Rights” are a moral concept, but they are different from other moral concepts. They have a unique function. Their function is not to secure directly the moral well-being [...]
1Sep1990 | Douglas B. Rasmussen | 0 comments | ContinuedShould Cigarette Advertising Be Banned?
Douglas J. Den Uyl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky,, and Tibor R. Machan is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. The American Medical Association has recently called for a ban on the advertising and promotion of all tobacco products. A new wave of debate on Constitutional questions and on [...]
1Dec1987 | and Douglas B. Rasmussen | 2 comments | Continued-
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