Business

Pursuing self-interest in business is not exploitative, because it can only be based on voluntary trade.

People are most often confused by executives who seem to share attributes of both the inflated and the genuine egoist

It is not Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and others that need to be “cut down to size,” as they cannot coerce us to buy their products and use their services.

For the sake of justice, liberty, and prosperity, people should abandon their anti-commercial prejudices and cease deriding unequal wealth and income.

Profit seeking and capitalism are natural and beneficial and provide the proper moral purpose for business.

What we need is competition in free markets and protection of individual rights.

A dictator cannot stand any form of independence — whether in words or action — and neither can Trump.

Ask Venezuelans whether they would prefer well-stocked supermarkets to empty shelves and the desperate shortages of food under socialism.

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 is a moral endeavor that makes human life immeasurably better.

A business can gain a temporary advantage by appeasing popular views that fly in the face of facts, but…

Ayn Rand argues that we must pursue self-interest—our rational values—because our lives depend on it.

It is the wealth creation by companies that has helped reduce poverty to its lowest levels in history.

Originally founded for the legitimate purpose of improving working conditions and helping negotiate wages, labor unions have substituted that purpose for entrenching the power of their leaders and the entitlements for their senior members.

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 competitive advantage of the company lies in the minds of its employees.

Instead of enforcing the Constitution and using its authority against the British Columbia government and protesters initiating physical force against Kinder Morgan property and its employees, Trudeau stayed true to what he said prior to the last election: “Governments might grant permits, but only communities can grant permission.”

The proper, moral role of companies in society is to produce and trade material values

Should Amazon locate its second headquarters in Toronto or elsewhere in Canada, it would be sacrificing profits due to government intervention.

CEO pay caps and minimum wages are immoral because both curtail individual freedom by government force—yet, freedom is the fundamental requirement of human flourishing and prosperity.