All Posts Tagged With: "Henry Grady Weaver"
The Mainspring of Human Progress
William Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. “There can be no progress except through the more effective use of our individual energies.” The emblazonment of this quotation on the front cover of the new edition of Henry Grady [...]
1Jun1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedHenry Grady Weaver’s Classic Vision of Freedom
John Hood is the president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). This essay is an expanded version of Mr. Hood’s introduction to the third edition of The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, published [...]
1Aug1997 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good by John M. Hood
Free Press • 1996 • 266 pages • $25.00 Dr. Peterson is an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation and distinguished Lundy professor emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. In his introduction John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a former Bradley fellow at [...]
1Feb1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedIf There Were No Capitalism
Mr. Chamberlin is an editorial contributor to the Wall Street Journal. “If there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.” Thus the witty and skeptical Voltaire’s phrase could also be applied to the economic system known as capitalism, often buried with much pomp and circumstance by communist, socialist, and assorted left wing [...]
1Feb1956 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedTalking To Ourselves
Mr. Weaver (1889-1949) is the author of The mainspring of Human Progress. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing “But what’s the use of talking to ourselves? What’s the point of sending literature on free enterprise to people who [...]
1Sep1955 | Henry Grady Weaver | 0 comments | Continued-
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