self interest

9 min read 2022-03-10 21:00:47

Egoism, Morality, and Anarchism Under Complexity

Jason Lee Byas has already articulated what I think is an interesting (and effective) challenge to Max Stirner’s critique of morality, as well as

1 min read 2021-10-13 01:34:22

Prompted by my recent visit to Finland, I listened to a lecture about the country’s challenges in the new world economy. It was delivered by the

1 min read 2021-09-21 14:45:00

Retracted: Dishonest paper about dishonesty Last month’s Research Lead began with the news that a team of researchers discovered fraudulent

1 min read 2021-09-04 00:04:27

After 18 months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we now know that the latest coronavirus, SARS CoV-2, will not go away. It will continue as endemic,

1 min read 2021-08-09 03:43:53

A recent Wall Street Journal column, comparing 1970’s and today’s situation, made an astute observation about the difference. Today, America’s

1 min read 2021-07-21 01:26:43

In its annual survey, Edelman Trust Barometer, the public relations firm Edelman has found that Canadians’ trust in business has dropped

1 min read 2021-06-22 05:16:43

Facebook recently lifted its ban on postings about a possible man-made origin of the Covid-19, after the theory about a virus leak from the Wuhan

1 min read 2021-05-25 01:38:55

Recently, I heard a colleague tell someone: “Everyone—except the naïve idealists—knows that one cannot be 100% moral in business; success in

1 min read 2021-05-08 22:51:06

In an ideal world, everyone understands that long-term profitability in business requires acting morally (and what that moral action involves).

7 min read 2021-03-01 18:32:00

In his 2020 Christmas Day address, Pope Francis urged world leaders to make coronavirus vaccines easily accessible to those in need, and encouraged

1 min read 2021-02-15 01:21:35

Is it moral to take wage subsidies from the government while being profitable and paying dividends? Consider the following scenario, common during

1 min read 2021-02-05 00:32:56

I have been reading articles about business ethics lately and discovered a common feature: a lack of understanding of self-interest. This is not

1 min read 2021-01-15 10:02:56

I recently taught a short course introducing business ethics and rational egoism to Executive MBA students. One student observed that it would be

1 min read 2020-12-04 09:32:25

When a CEO was given my book, How to Be Profitable and Moral, he exclaimed: “But I don’t want to be moral!” His response reflects a common view

3 min read 2020-11-18 01:45:40

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921; Philosophical Investigations, 1953] famously argued for the analytical