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Two 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 | 0 comments | ContinuedRights versus "Rights"
Dr. Machan is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. His latest book is Private Rights and Public Illusions, from Transaction Books. He is a contributing editor of The Freeman. For the past 200 years or so a debate has ensued in political philosophy, on the issue of what sorts of rights human beings have. [...]
1May1995 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedRisk, Rights, and Regulation
In her book about medieval Europe, A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman describes a world so dangerous that one or two children died as infants for every three that were born. Death was so likely, she says, that parents invested little emotion in their children during the first five or six years; children were “left to [...]
1Mar1995 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedNo Rights without Property Rights
Reading between the lines of the news stories from Russia, or rather the commentaries on the news, one detects a note of hopefulness. Perhaps, they seem to say, the demotion of Stalin portends a measure of freedom for the Russian people. Admitting that a controlled economy is undesirable, is brutality a necessary concomitant of it? [...]
1Oct1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomics, Inter Alia
Dr. Poirot is a member of the staff of the Foundation [or Economic Education. Inter Alia is a Latin phrase meaning “among other things,’” and that is precisely the place to look for the economic policies of the United Nations. Article 55 of the Charter authorizes the United Nations to promote, inter alia, “higher standards [...]
1Mar1956 | Paul L. Poirot | 0 comments | Continued-
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