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Ayn Rand and Friedrich A. Hayek: A Side-by-Side Comparison
(no
334 – September 15, 2015)
Toward an Integrated Framework for Flourishing and Happiness
(no
332 – May 15, 2015)
Marx's Dictatorship of the Proletarian Majority (no
331 – April 15, 2015)
Exploring Capitalist Fiction - Allen Mendenhall
Interviews Edward W. Younkins (no
319 – February 15,
2014)
The Best Novels and Plays
about Business: Results of a
Survey
(no
311 – May 15,
2013)
Reflections on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
(no
309 – March 15,
2013)
Business Through Literature
and Film (no
308 – February 15,
2013)
Workplace Freedom and Right to Work Laws (no
307 – January 15,
2013)
Flourishing and Happiness in a Nutshell (no
301 – June 15,
2012)
Objectivist Virtue Ethics in Business (no
300 – May 15,
2012)
Cash McCall: The Story of a Heroic Corporate Raider (no
299 – April 15,
2012)
Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back: A Tale of the
Reinvention of Capitalism (no
298 – March 15,
2012)
Sometimes a Great Notion: The Story of a Family Who
Would Never Give an Inch (no
297 – February 15,
2012)
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman:
A Case of Self-Delusion (no
296 – January 15,
2012)
Creating a Virtue-Based Business (no
295 – December 15,
2011)
The Rise of Silas Lapham: A Story
of Self-Identity, Self-Respect, and Morality (no
294 – November 15,
2011)
Taking a Look at Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
(no
293 – October 15,
2011)
Flourishing & Happiness In A Free Society: Preface (no
292 – September 15, 2010)
Other
People's Money: A Tale of Capitalism and Creative
Destruction (no
280 – August 15, 2010)
An American Romance: King Vidor's Epic Film of
Immigration and the American Dream (no
271 – October 15, 2009)
Executive Suite: A Story of Corporate Success and
Succession (no
270 – September 15, 2009)
Government Stimulus Packages Are Attempts to Deny Reality (no
266 – April 15, 2009)
Ayn Rand, Human Flourishing, and Virtue Ethics (no
265 – March 15, 2009)
Epicurus on Freedom and Happiness (no
241 – November 11, 2007)
Atlas and Economics: Celebrating Atlas Shrugged's
50th Anniversary (no
236 – October 7, 2007)
A Review of Andrew Bernstein's The Philosophic and Literary
Integration in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (no
232 – Sept. 9, 2007)
Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System (no
231 – June 24, 2007)
Toward a Paradigm for a Free Society (no
224 – May 6, 2007)
Natural Rights as Derived from Ethical Egoism: Tibor R.
Machan's Randian Approach
(no
206 – December
17, 2006)
Human Flourishing and Natural Rights
(no
203 – November
26, 2006)
Revisiting the Intellectual Heritage of a Free Society
(no
193 – September
17, 2006)
Lao Tzu's Naturalistic Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics
(no
189 – August
20, 2006)
Turgot on Progress and Political Economy
(no
186 – July
30, 2006)
James M. Buchanan: Constitutional and Post-Constitutional
Political Economy
(no
184 – July
16, 2006)
Herbert Spencer on Liberty and Human Progress
(no
181 – June
25, 2006)
Spinoza on Freedom, Ethics, and Politics
(no
178 –
May 7, 2006)
Milton Friedman's Pragmatic and Incremental Libertarianism
(no
176 –
April 23, 2006)
John Locke's Limited State (no
167 –
February 19, 2006)
Jean-Baptiste Say' Law of Markets: A
Fundamental, Conceptual Integration
(no
166 –
Feb. 12, 2006)
Thomas Aquinas' Christian Aristotelianism
(no
163 –
January 22, 2006)
Reconciling Austrian Economics and Objectivism
(no
161 –
December 15, 2005)
Hegel's Authoritarian State as the Divine Idea on Earth
(no
160 –
November 15, 2005)
Toward the Unity and Integration of Knowledge: The Study of
Political and Economic Philosophy (no
159 –
October 15, 2005)
Aristotle and Economics (no
158 –
September 15, 2005)
A Review of Andrew Bernstein's The
Capitalist Manifesto (no
157 –
August 15, 2005)
Rousseau's "General Will" and Well Ordered
Society
(no
156 –
July 15, 2005)
Plato's Advocacy of Collectivism (no
155 –
June 15, 2005)
Dignity Demystified
(no
154 –
May 15, 2005)
Adam Smith's Moral and Economic System
(no
153 –
April 15, 2005)
"Who is Henry M. Galt": A Review of Garet
Garrett's The Driver (no
152 –
March 15, 2005)
The Road to Objective Economics: Hayek Takes a
Wrong Turn (no
151 –
February 15, 2005)
Mises, Friedman and Rand: A Methodological
Comparison (no
150 –
January 15, 2005)
The Plague of Postmodernism (no
149 – December 15,
2004)
From
NASA To Commercial Space Enterprises (no
148 – November 15, 2004)
The
Flawed Doctrine of Nature's Intrinsic Value (no
147 – October 15, 2004)
Atlas
Shrugged: A Novel of Human Action (no
146 – September 15, 2004)
The
Congruity Among Ayn Rand's Metaphysics, Epistemology, Value Theory and
Ethics (no
145 – August 15, 2004)
Atlas
Shrugged in the Business School (no
144 – July 15, 2004)
Ludwig
von Mises: From Historicist to Praxeologist (no
143 – June 15, 2004)
Carl
Menger on the Evolution of Institutions: The Case Of Money (no
142 – May 15, 2004)
Carl
Menger's Aristotelian Methodology in Economics (no
141 – April 15, 2004)
Carl
Menger and the German Historical School (no
139 – March 6, 2004)
Human
Nature, Human Action, and Human Flourishing: Toward an Integration of Austrian
Economics and Objectivism (no
137 – February 7, 2004)
Metaphysics
and Epistemology for a free society: The views of Menger, Mises & Rand
(no
135 – December 20, 2003)
Aristotle,
Human flourishing, and the limited state (no
133 – November 22, 2003)
Austrian
economics can be compatible with Objectivist ethics (no
129 – September 27, 2003)
What
an Austrian-Objectivist paradigm for a free society might look like
(no 126 – July 19,
2003)
Developing
a paradigm for a free society: The contributions of Mises, Menger, and Rand (no
124 – May 10, 2003)
Toward
a conceptual framework for capitalism (no
121 – March 15, 2003)
Antitrust
laws harm consumers and stifle competition (no
116 – December 21, 2002)
Customary
law as an evolved good shortcut (no
112 – October 26, 2002)
Contract
as a shortcut to progress (no 109
– September 14, 2002)
Mises'
views on inflation and the business cycle (no
107 – August 3, 2002)
Mises'
utilitarianism as social cooperation (no
106 – July 6, 2002)
Robert
Nozick's libertarian framework for Utopia • Part Two (no
103 – April 27, 2002)
Robert
Nozick's libertarian framework for Utopia • Part One (no
102 – April 13, 2002)
Free-market
environmentalism (no 100
– March 16, 2002)
Market
Prices VS. Government-Controlled Prices (no
98 – February 16, 2002)
Political
correctness threatens free speech (no
96 – January 19, 2002)
Ayn
Rand's philosophy of Objectivism (no
93 – November 24, 2001)
Personnal
flourishing and happiness: a case for the minimal state (no
91 – October 27, 2001)
Thomas
Sowell's constrained vision of man and society (no
89 – September 29, 2001)
Amitai
Etzioni's responsive community: a flawed paradigm (no
87 – September 1st, 2001)
Multiculturalism:
The rejection of truth and reason (no
86 – August 4, 2001)
Time
to repeal the Welfare State (no 85
– July 7, 2001)
Two
perspectives on corporate social responsibility (no
84 – June 9, 2001)
Chris
Matthew Sciabarra: Thinking freedom in context (no
82 – April 28, 2001)
The
moral merits of business: image and reality (no
80 – March 31, 2001)
The
businessman as a moral risk-taker (no
78 – March 3, 2001)
Michael
Novak's vision of democratic capitalism (no
76 – February 3, 2001)
What
sort of security should the State provide for individuals? (no
74 – January 6, 2001)
The
future of free enterprise (no 73
– December 9, 2000)
Searching
films for a capitalist hero (no 72 –
November 25, 2000)
How
government manipulates money and produces inflation (no
70 – October 28, 2000)
Taxation
and Justice (no 68
– September 30, 2000)
The
purpose of law and constitutions (no 66
– September 2, 2000)
The
Evolution of Law (no 65 –
August 5, 2000)
Entrepreneurship
properly understood (no 64 –
July 8, 2000)
Civil
Society: The realm of freedom (no 63
– June 10, 2000)
Corporate
Governance does not mean Corporate Government (no
62 – May 13, 2000)
True
rights are freedoms, not powers (no
60 – April 15, 2000)
Labor
law should protect worker freedom instead of unions (no
58 – March 18, 2000)
Antitrust
laws should be abolished (no 56
– February 19, 2000)
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Atlas Shrugged and Social Change, The Journal of
Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (December 2017), pp.
285-305.
Ayn Rand and Friedrich A. Hayek: A Comparison,
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Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, The
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2015), pp. 157-184.
Philosophical and Literary Integration In Ayn Rand's
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Economics in Ayn
Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 13, no.
2 (Issue 26, December 2013): 123-39.
Ayn Rand's Objectivist
Virtues as the Foundation for Morality and Success in
Business, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 12, no.
2 (Issue 24, December 2012): 237-62.
Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged,
Libertarian Papers 3, 5 (2011).
Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis
of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology,
and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism (Libertarian Papers 2,
35 - 2010)
Toward the
Development of a Paradigm of Human Flourishing in a Free
Society (The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 9, no. 2
- Spring 2008)
John Rawls' Theory of Blind "Justice"
(SOLOhq - April 21, 2005)
Principles of Metanormative Justice (SOLOhq - March
29, 2005)
The Robert Stadler Story: The Moral Fall of a Man Who Knew
Better (SOLOhq - February 9, 2005)
A Randian Definition of the Common Good (SOLOhq -
January 4, 2005)
Ayn Rand: Philosopher of Unity and
Integration (The Free Radical -
February/March 2005)
Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond (The Journal
of Ayn Rand Studies 6, no. 2 -
Spring 2005)
Political Correctness Threatens Free Society
(SOLOhq - December 30, 2004)
Ayn Rand's Metaphysics and Epistemology (SOLOhq -
November 30, 2004)
Free-Market Environmentalism (SOLOhq - November 22,
2004)
Ayn Rand's Ethics (SOLOhq - November 11, 2004)
The Philosophy of Social Engineering: An Irrational and
Inconsistent Worldview (SOLOhq - October 28, 2004)
Flaws of Communitarian Thinkers (SOLOhq - October
20, 2004)
Trade Barriers Are Immoral and Destructive of Economic
Well-Being (SOLOhq - October 12, 2004)
Pure and Perfect Competition: An Unrealistic and Mistaken
Ideal (SOLOhq - September 30, 2004)
Multiculturalism: A Tool of Collectivism (SOLOhq -
September 19, 2004)
True Educational Freedom (SOLOhq - September 8,
2004)
Ayn Rand's Value Theory (SOLOhq - August 8, 2004)
Marketing A Free Society: Education, Persuasion, and
Conversion (SOLOhq - July 30, 2004)
Funding Government Without Taxation (SOLOhq - July
13, 2004)
The Reality and Morality of Business (SOLOhq - June
10, 2004)
Aristotle: Ayn Rand's Acknowledged Teacher (SOLOhq
- April 25, 2004)
Immanuel Kant: Ayn Rand’s Intellectual Enemy (SOLOhq
- April 7, 2004)
Toward a Paradigm of Human Nature, Human Action, and Human
Flourishing (SOLOhq - March 24, 2004)
Contributions of Post-Randian Philosophers of Human
Flourishing (SOLOhq - March 3, 2004)
Murray Rothbard's Randian Austrianism (SOLOhq -
February 25, 2004)
Can the Ideas of Mises and Rand Be Reconciled? (SOLOhq
- February 3, 2004)
Carl Menger's Economics of Well-Being: Almost Objectivism
(SOLOhq - January 20, 2004)
Reconciling
Austrian and Objectivist Value Theories (The Free Radical -
Nov. 2003/Jan. 2004)
Extract
from Capitalism & Commerce (The Free Radical - Nov.
2002/Jan. 2003)
Tyranny
of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook
(The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - August 2002)
Morality
and Character Development: The Roles of Capitalism, Commerce, and the Corporation
(Markets & Morality - Spring 2001)
True
Rights are Freedoms, Not Powers (Consent, January 2001)
Education
in a Free Society (The Free Radical - Nov. 2000/Jan. 2001)
Protectionism:
A threat to Individual Rights (Liberty Free Press - November
15, 2000)
Why
the World Is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its Descencents
(The Free Radical - Sept./Oct. 2000)
In
Praise of Commercial Culture (Liberty Free Press - September
15, 2000)
Government
Regulation: Enemy of Individualism (Liberty Free Press - August
15, 2000)
In
Dispraise of Communitarianism (The Free Radical - May/June 2000)
Freedom
to Contract (Liberty Free Press - June 15, 2000)
The
Common Good Demystified (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - May 2000)
Work
in a Free Society (Liberty Free Press - May 15, 2000)
Private
Property Rights: The Moral and Economic Foundation of a Free Society
(Liberty Free Press - April 15, 2000)
Individual
Rights, Social Responsibilities, and Corporations (The Free Radical
- March/April 2000)
Justice
in a Free Society (Liberty Free Press - March 15, 2000)
Technology,
Progress, and Freedom (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - January 2000)
The
Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel (Free Life -
July 1999)
The
Cross and the Rain Forest: A Critique of Radical Green Spirituality
(Free Life - April 1999)
Michael
Novak’s Portrait of Democratic Capitalism (Markets & Morality - Spring 1999)
Ayn
Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism (The Individual - February
1999)
Business
as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (The Social Critic
- Winter 1998)
The
Conceptual Foundations of Democratic Capitalism (The Social Critic
- Winter, 1998)
The
Minimal State, Not the Welfare State (The Individual - November
1998)
Reality
is Not Optional: Thomas Sowell's Vision of Man and Society (The
Social Critic - Fall, 1998)
Personal
Flourishing and Happiness: A Case for the Minimal State (The Social
Critic - Fall, 1998)
Cinema
and the Capitalist Hero (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - June 1998)
Capitalism
and Morality (Impact - Summer, 1998)
Philosophical
Enemies of a Free Society (The Social Critic - Summer, 1998)
Individualism
and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities (The Freeman: Ideas
on Liberty - January 1998)
Business
and Morality in a Free Society (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty -
November 1997)
Atlas
Shrugged Revisited: Forty Years of Voicing the Philosophy of Freedom
(The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - May 1997)
Stockholders
as Stakeholders (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - April 1997)
Perspectives
on Capitalism and Freedom (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - December
1996)
Individual
Happiness and the Minimal State (The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
- October 1996) |
Edward W. Younkins is Professor of
Accountancy and Business Administration in the Department of
Business and Technology at Wheeling Jesuit University and the
founder of the university’s undergraduate degree program in
Political and Economic Philosophy. He is also the founding
director of the university’s Master of Business Administration
(MBA) and Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) programs.
