Justice Demands That We Should Celebrate Diversity in Wealth Too
For the sake of justice, liberty, and prosperity, people should abandon their anti-commercial prejudices and cease deriding unequal wealth and income.
Profit Maximization: The Moral Purpose of a Business Under Capitalism
Profit seeking and capitalism are natural and beneficial and provide the proper moral purpose for business.
Business Needs Freedom and Not a “Social License” to Operate
What we need is competition in free markets and protection of individual rights.
In Praise of Supermarkets (and Capitalism)
Ask Venezuelans whether they would prefer well-stocked supermarkets to empty shelves and the desperate shortages of food under socialism.
The Importance of Business Ethics
A new semester, and a new class of business ethics, has begun. In my class, we initially discuss concrete examples of ethical dilemmas in business before delving into the main moral codes and the values and principles they comprise, to learn how they provide guidance...
Business Requires Moral Clarity
Business is a moral endeavor that makes human life immeasurably better.
Does Fighting Climate Change Give a Business a Competitive Advantage?
A business can gain a temporary advantage by appeasing popular views that fly in the face of facts, but…
Why Pursue Self-Interest, and Do It Persistently? Ayn Rand Has The Answer
Ayn Rand argues that we must pursue self-interest—our rational values—because our lives depend on it.
Business Improves Lives
It is the wealth creation by companies that has helped reduce poverty to its lowest levels in history.
The Gates-Buffet “Giving Pledge” is Immoral
The Giving Pledge is immoral because it is based on the idea that those who have legitimately created wealth by trading values with others have not earned it and must “give it back.”
THE CAPITALIST ADVISOR
