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Social Security

If I understand the Bush administration's proposal from early 2005, it was intended to transition the Social Security system to something

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Pyramid of Ability and Individual Moral Worth

Objectivism holds that in a society in which people deal with each other by trade, there will exist a "pyramid of ability." It is a pyramid

Sep 29, 2010
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3 Mins
Prisoner's Dilemma

First, let me remark that you are right that Objectivism doesn't share Singer's idea of interest. We can see this by looking at the real...

Sep 28, 2010
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William Thomas
4 Mins
Anti-Capitalist Dreams

Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall

Sep 25, 2010
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3 Mins
The Virtue of Profit and the Profitable Virtues

February 2002 -- Businessmen profiled in the popular press often mention Atlas Shrugged as their favorite book. Ayn Rand was one of the

Sep 9, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins
Enron's Lessons for Capitalism

March 2002 -- The sudden bankruptcy of Enron Corporation is a scandal that has rocked support for the free market. Living in a division-of..

Sep 9, 2010
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William Thomas
10 Mins
Decoding the Credit Crisis

That’s the charge that Newsweek columnist and Slate Magazine editor Jacob Weisberg has laid against the advocates of markets in a recent..

Sep 8, 2010
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10 Mins
All in Favor Say "I"

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
The Morality of Money

In reacting to the Enron scandal, many cultural commentators have been quick to recur to a favorite theme: the corrupting power of commerce

Sep 1, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Cara Ellison Defends Atlas

Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...

Aug 7, 2010
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2 Mins
The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation

May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the

Jul 12, 2010
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8 Mins
Micro-Financing: Profit vs. Altruism

Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Michael Dell Passes the Apple Test

Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell

Jul 8, 2010
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3 Mins
Rand's Persecuted Minority

The Atlases who bear this world on their shoulders. Uniquely, Rand’s work portrays the exploited entrepreneurs of the mixed economy as the..

Jun 29, 2010
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10 Mins
Instant Books and Instapundits

In its heyday, the instant book was an invaluable resource. Appearing shortly after a major news event, the tome would give a complete news

Jun 29, 2010
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6 Mins
The Best Work of the Best Minds

I am sitting on the shore of Lake Ontario. It is late spring, and the sun rose about five minutes ago. The waters, which appeared blue

Jun 29, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
9 Mins
Banking on Envy

The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...

Jun 21, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
The Moral Counter-Revolution of the Goldman Sachs Case

May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of

Jun 21, 2010
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5 Mins
In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism

Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter

Jun 16, 2010
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9 Mins
Interview: The Fall of Ken Lay

Enron will prove to be one of the most important episodes in the history of American business, and its story, from beginning to end, is

May 13, 2010
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10 Mins

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