I want to challenge the premise that the tax-funded welfare state is the ideal civilized society.
Jaana Woiceshyn
Jaana Woiceshyn taught business ethics and competitive strategy for over 30 years at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, where she is now an emerita professor.
How to Be Profitable and Moral” is her first solo-authored book.
Visit her website at profitableandmoral.com.
What’s Wrong with the World?
My fellow students attribute the state of the world – political division and outrage, increased violence, hunger and poverty – to selfishness, the profit motive and capitalism.
How AI Can Improve Education
AI-based programs will help students engage with the material, accelerate their learning and achieve mastery of academic subjects.
Charity Won’t Eradicate Poverty – Freedom Will
Instead of the “selfishness and greed” of wealthy producers, evidence shows that the fundamental cause of poverty is lack of freedom.
Anti-Capitalists Bark Up The Wrong Tree
Capitalism is a system of freedom where the government’s only role is to protect the rights of individuals.
Tech Companies and Mental Health Harms of Social Media
Tech companies are not legally liable for the anxiety and depression of the users of their social media platforms – but they bear moral responsibility for the harms on children caused by their algorithms.
End of DEI?
The DEI terminology may not have disappeared entirely from business but the ideology (if it ever amounted to more than virtue signaling in corporate communications) has been extinguished.
In Defense of “Evil Billionaire” Jim Pattison
We should thank billionaire entrepreneurs like Jim Pattison and patronize their businesses – not attack them.
Business Sucess Requires Principles Over Pragmatism
One of the reasons businesspeople dismiss moral principles is that they see them as burdensome duties to benefit others by sacrificing one’s own interests.
The Inherent Contradiction of “State Capitalism”
Regardless of the evidence of “state capitalism” not working, many still consider the combination of statism and capitalism – the mixed economy – the ideal system, “the best of both worlds.”
Capitalism Works For People, If The Government Would Let It
Peter Thiel has it wrong. We don’t have capitalism but a statist mixed economy where statism is, and has been, the cause of the economic struggles of the Millennials.
Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
The Hazard of Doing Business with China – and What to Do About It
Moral, profit seeking businesses must be vigilant about the China risk; it is in their self-interest to compete and trade freely and not help authoritarian countries expand their control.
Statism is The Great Political Evil
Why should you care about statism, the increasing government control over your freedom?
Peace Requires Capitalism
As Rand observes, capitalism is the only system that makes peaceful co-existence among people and countries possible.
The Threat of Ever-Increasing Statism
Statism, as Ayn Rand defines it, is the political principle that life of an individual belongs to the state.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Celebrating Work
Let’s celebrate the important value of work on Labor Day—and demand that our governments stop killing jobs through their taxes, climate action plans and regulations and let people invest, trade, and work freely.
Profit Over Principle?
Are principles and profits really in conflict?
End Capitalism?
Capitalism can save us (and the planet) – if we let it.
Attack on the Space Titans: Musk, Bezos, and The Ethics of Economic Power
Most successful entrepreneurs become rich, not because of luck or having been handed extraordinary opportunities, but because they have worked productively.
Is Capitalism to Blame For The Poor Health of Many Americans?
The statist mixed economy, not capitalism, is to blame for Americans’ poor health and poor diet.
How Can Profits Be Moral?
Many people have a dim view of profits; they see them as the result of immoral exploitation by business for selfish gain.
The Moral Case Against Tariffs – and for Free Trade
According to Rand, then, tariffs are destructive because they are a form of physical coercion by the government. They violate the citizens’ freedom to choose with whom to trade and on what terms and thus limit their ability to pursue their lives.
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