Archive for Edward W. Younkins
Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook
Tyranny of Reason is an accessible work of Western intellectual history in the tradition of Karl Popper’s Open Society and Its Enemies, Leonard Peikoff’s The Ominous Parallels, and Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions. In this powerfully argued book, Yuval Levin, associate director at the Center for the Study of Technology and Society, traces the [...]
1Aug2002 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Common Good Demystified
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. The idea of the common good has been one of the most vague and most difficult concepts to clarify in the history of man. For many, the common good has primacy over persons and thus takes precedence over self-interest. [...]
1May2000 | Edward W. Younkins | 2 comments | ContinuedTechnology, Progress, and Freedom
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia. Technology represents man’s attempt to make life easier. Technological advances improve people’s standard of living, increase leisure time, help eliminate poverty, and lead to a greater variety of products. Progress allows people more time to spend on higher [...]
1Jan2000 | Edward W. Younkins | 1 comment | ContinuedCinema and the Capitalist Hero
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. The businessman has not fared well in film. Moviemakers have often attacked business and industry for destroying an old communal order based on equality and have lamented the businessman’s preoccupation with material success and the dominance of large organizations [...]
1Jun1998 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedIndividualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Individualism is the view that each person has moral significance and certain rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature. Each individual exists, perceives, experiences, thinks, and acts in and through his own body and [...]
1Jan1998 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedBusiness and Morality in a Free Society
Dr. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Few would deny that capitalism is the most productive and efficient economic system, especially after the collapse of Soviet Communism. But some critics still contend that capitalism is not a moral system. Yet morality is impossible unless one is [...]
1Nov1997 | Edward W. Younkins | 2 comments | ContinuedStockholders as Stakeholders
Dr. Younkins is a professor of accountancy at Wheeling Jesuit University. The issue of corporate social responsibility first emerged in the early twentieth century, when corporations were criticized for being too large and powerful and for engaging in anti-social and anti-competitive practices. Some business leaders responded by using their private wealth for community and social [...]
1Apr1997 | Edward W. Younkins | 2 comments | ContinuedPerspectives on Capitalism and Freedom
Dr. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Capitalism and freedom are inseparable. In our society we believe that human beings, merely by virtue of being human, possess the capacity to exercise freedom and the right to do so. Each person should be free to own property, [...]
1Dec1996 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedIndividual Happiness and the Minimal State
Dr. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. The Founding Fathers held the view that government, while deriving its power from the consent of the governed, must be limited by the rights of the individual. The purpose of government was to maintain a framework of law and [...]
1Oct1996 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | Continued-
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