Capitalism
Confusions about capitalism
Capitalism is often blamed for the world’s problems – and there are plenty. For example, Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and the subsequent global energy
August 9, 2022 No Comments
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Environmentalism
The global energy crisis: How to avert a human catastrophe
The current global energy crisis is hard to evade. We face the evidence daily: more than doubled gas prices, record-high power bills, soaring prices of
June 28, 2022 1 Comment
Business ethics
ESG investing: Good for people and the planet?
Corporations’ ability to raise financing – and to create goods and services and returns on their shareholders’ investment – increasingly depends on their ESG (environment,
May 29, 2022 2 Comments
Altruism
Whom should you do business with?
As Russia continues its brutal invasion of Ukraine and its increasing atrocities toward civilians are revealed, most of the world is increasing moral condemnation and
April 13, 2022 1 Comment
Altruism
New “stakeholder capitalism”: A mandatory social role for business
There is a new “stakeholder capitalism” starting to prevail on business, proposed as a solution to what are widely perceived as the world’s urgent challenges:
March 22, 2022 No Comments
Freedom
Authoritarianism shrinks freedom in Canada
Prime minister Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act to remove the truckers occupying downtown Ottawa in protest of the vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions
February 19, 2022 No Comments
Business ethics
Making good hiring decisions – and getting hired
Companies around the world are struggling with worker shortages, partly due to the demographic shifts and partly due to the changes brought by the pandemic
January 31, 2022 1 Comment
Freedom
Stand up for freedom – your life depends on it
Two years of unprecedented erosion of our freedom by the government during the pandemic – economic lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, travel bans, long forced quarantines, incarcerations
January 22, 2022 3 Comments
Altruism
How to end poverty: Stop “redistributing” wealth
The world-wide anti-inequality movement, led by the socialist economist Thomas Piketty, would have us believe that differences in income and wealth cause disease and death.
January 5, 2022 7 Comments
Business ethics
Virtuous business?
At best, business is dismissed as amoral, being outside of moral concerns. At worst, it is accused of being fundamentally immoral. Many people disdain business
December 12, 2021 No Comments
Environmentalism
Climate change versus weather emergencies – from the perspective of environmental humanism
For homework in my recent Spanish conversation class, we were asked to write about the topic “the environment/climate change” as a basis for discussion for
November 29, 2021 1 Comment
Environmentalism
Net-zero emission targets: What should business do?
For almost 30 years, the United Nations has held an annual climate summit on the premise that humans are causing catastrophic, planet-destroying climate change through
November 19, 2021 2 Comments
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