All Posts Tagged With: "wealth creation"
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Free Lunch
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” So an angry Lord Jehovah thundered down on Adam and Eve—that unrighteous couple who had eaten of the forbidden fruit and [...]
1Sep1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Entrepreneur on the Heroic Journey
Ms. Allen is a teacher-on-special-assignment in the Education Alliance of Pueblo, Colorado. Dr. Lee is Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. What do you want to be when you grow up? was a question that adults regularly posed to all of us when we were young. Generally, even as children, we imagined [...]
1Apr1997 | Candace Allen | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life by Michael Novak
The relationship between economics, business, philosophy, and theology periodically received serious attention from the time of Adam Smith into the early twentieth century. Albeit with a handful of very valuable exceptions, this discussion unfortunately has been on a general decline ever since. With his book Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life, Michael [...]
1Apr1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Social Function of Mr. Henry Ford
Spencer Heath (1876-1963) was a pioneer in aviation manufacturing and the author of Citadel, Market and Altar: Emerging Society. His grandson Spencer Heath McCallum found this letter in the course of cataloguing his grandfather’s writings for the Institute for Humane Studies. Miss Thompson was a well-known journalist whose column, “On the Record,” appeared in the [...]
1Nov1996 | Spencer Heath | 2 comments | ContinuedFortunately, It’s Just a Game
Ms. Allen is a social studies and economics teacher at the Pueblo School of the Arts and Sciences, a Colorado charter school. I haven’t played Monopoly for years and years. But a few nights ago I was given another chance. After I’d banned the television for the evening, my twelve-year-old son persuaded me to play [...]
1Apr1995 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | Continued-
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