The government has no business in dictating voluntary trade between employers and employees. The minimum wage laws are immoral and should be abolished, leaving businesses and workers free to prosper.
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.
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Aversion to Capitalism
Business schools do not do a good job of educating their students about capitalism.
Genetically Modified Foods: A Tremendous Human Achievement
Genetically modified foods are a tremendous human achievement and value.
Objections Against Capitalism: The Perils of “Too Much” Freedom
The argument for limiting our freedom—and for objecting capitalism, a system of freedom—is based on a dismal view of human beings.
Crying for Argentina
If the Argentinians can reduce the size of their government and turn it from ruining the economy to protecting individual rights, there will be much to cheer for in Argentina.
Leadership and The BB&T Philosophy
The foundation of BB&T’s success is its principles.
Envy vs. Achievement
Ayn Rand called envy “the hatred of the good for being the good.” Instead of hating and envying the good, let’s love and thank the good for being the good.
Neil Young’s Immoral Attack on Oil Sands
It is about time the oil companies take the high moral ground and tell the world what a crucial value oil and other fossil fuels are to us.
Capitalism: The Solution to Mass Poverty
If we want to eradicate poverty and increase economic and general well-being, we need to understand first what capitalism really means, and then embrace it.
Pure Capitalism Everywhere: A New Year’s Wish
Pure capitalism, as defined by Ayn Rand in her essay “Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal,” is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
Let There Be Light
The proper role of the government is not to tell companies what to produce and sell and to consumers what to buy.
Swiss Reject To Limit Executive Pay
Justice demands that people are compensated on the basis of performance, not on the basis of their need or of the egalitarian ideal dominant in today’s culture.
“Victims” of capitalism?
As the system consistent with requirements of human survival and flourishing, understanding capitalism is in our self-interest.
Embracing the Nanny State vs. Valuing Freedom
We should guard freedom vigilantly against the encroachment of the nanny state—if we value our survival and happiness. The only way to do it is to embrace freedom and reject altruism—and to do so on principle.
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Ethics education is blossoming in business schools (see Financial Post article here). Yet, the scandals don’t seem to go away: corruption at SNC-Lavalin, government interference in mortgage finance and banking that led to the 2008 financial crisis, new fraudulent...
Rescuing BlackBerry?
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The Moral Equals The Practical
It’s the pragmatists—those who reject principled morality—who are naïve.
Banning private health care kills: Equality at the cost of human lives
The Alberta medical regulator’s proposal to ban private diagnostic services is based on the evil anti-human-life philosophy of egalitarianism.
Purpose in life: “the poetry of work”
“Poetry of work” is worth pursuing. It gives us purpose—and it gives us happiness.
In Praise of Privatization and Private Property
Everyone benefits from privatization and free markets. The only exceptions are people who do not want to be productive and want to live as parasites of others.
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