Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
CEE guest speaker Dr. Alexei Marcoux gives a short lecture on different conceptions of entrepreneurship in the video below:
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
Dr. Stephen Hicks , CEE’s Executive Director, talks with Federico Fernández and Martin Sarano, co-founders of Bases Foundation , on the political and economic climate in Argentina.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Dr. Stephen Hicks , CEE’s executive director, talks with guest speaker Douglas Den Uyl about the essence of capitalism.
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Forbes columnist John Tamny on “What Keith Richards’ ‘Life’ As a Rolling Stone Tells Us About Economics.” Tamny discusses Richards’s rise to success and fortune and what we can learn from his example.
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Dr. Stephen Hicks , CEE’s executive director, talks with economist David R. Henderson on seven myths about free markets.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Rockford College philosophy professor Stephen Hicks’s essay entitled “Ethics and Economics” was published in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics , edited by David Henderson, Ph.D. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics is the second edition of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics , which was published to acclaim in 1993, and includes essays by “Nobel Prize winners Gary Becker and George Stigler, former presidential economic advisors, financial columnists, and economists such as Armen Alchian, Don Boudreaux, Deepak Lal, Anna Schwartz, Lawrence Summers, and Murray Rothbard.”
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