To the delight of everyone who cares about freedom and human well-being, Exxon did not surrender to Healey’s irrational demand. Instead, it sued AG Healey in a Texas court last week, for violating its constitutional right for free speech
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.
The Purpose of a Business: Creating Value (Goods and Services) For Value (Profit)
Business is for producing and trading material values, driven by the profit motive.
Profit motive and private property—keys to preventing forest fire damage
While it is too late to prevent the damage in Fort McMurray now, the solution to minimizing losses from fires in the future is to sell the government forests and let private owners manage them for long-term profitability—by protecting their own property and respecting the property rights of others (through good property management to reduce the fire hazard).
Human Flourishing Requires Energy—not Government Coercion
Individual rights include the freedom to use whichever sources of energy people and businesses want, as long as they don’t violate others’ rights.
Lying in Business
In my years of teaching ethics to business students, I must have heard it all when it comes to justifying deception and lying in business.
Tax Avoidance is Moral
Those who think that government collecting taxes from those who are productive to give them to those who are not is just, do so because they have accepted the morality of altruism and egalitarianism and believe that statism is the ideal social system.
Does Acting Morally Cost You?
Whether you believe that acting morally costs or pays depends on your view of morality.
Laissez-Faire Capitalism O Canada!
There are just two fundamental requirements of innovation—neither of which requires taxation: reason and freedom.
A Capitalist Solution to Finland’s Cradle To Grave Nanny State
The egalitarian ideal of minimizing inequality of income and wealth, the nanny state is unjust because it penalizes those who are productive and entrepreneurial to reward those who are not.
“Green Oil”
Despite the increased use of fossil fuels, toxic pollution has already decreased significantly, and the availability of clean water has increased—thanks to human ingenuity and innovation.
Making Moral Business Choices
True self-interest cannot involve cynical exploitation of others through initiation of physical force or fraud
A Philosopher’s Package Deal To Misrepresent Selfishness
To make selfishness, or self-interest, unpalatable and to promote altruism instead, the majority of philosophers misrepresent self-interest as a package-deal.
Government Subsidies Will Erode The Freedom of The Press
If the government subsidizes or operates newspapers, the important role of independent investigation and criticism of government actions—and the hope for changing the government—is lost.
Self Interest and The “Common Good”
A common exhortation heard today is: Set self-interest aside and act for the “common good.” Businesspeople in particular are accused of selfishness and are told (by media commentators, NGOs, and ethicists, among others) to serve the “common good.” This exhortation...
In Defense of Pipelines, Oil and Energy Producers
Most people in industrialized countries take the availability of such energy for granted: we turn on a switch, and the power is there, for heating, cooling, lighting, manufacturing, transportation, and for any other human purpose.
DiCaprio Condemns Oil Companies as He Benefits From Their Products
The feather in Mr. DiCaprio’s dunce cap is his hypocrisy over fossil fuels — without the energy provided by the fossil fuel companies, the Hollywood film industry could not exist, and DiCaprio could not have had the career and earned wealth he has.
The Anti-Capitalist Appeal of Altruism and The Pro-Capitalism Alternative
How is it possible that business students—some of them with significant business experience—have never heard of the moral code of rational egoism?
My New Year’s Wish: More Reason, Capitalism and Freedom
While the use of reason is the fundamental requirement of business success, freedom—protected by individual rights—is its social requirement.
The Ethics and Commercial Benefits of Human Genetic Engineering
Free-market competition among the commercializing businesses makes genetic editing affordable and available to all.
How Mark Zuckerberg Could Truly Make The World a Better Place
If Zuckerberg truly wants to eliminate poverty and find cures for diseases, most of his money should be invested in profit-seeking businesses.
Questioning Climate Change Dogma
By creating the imaginary threat of man-made climate change, climate alarmists have given governments everywhere a justification to increase state control in our lives.
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