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Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation
R&L: In your view, what are the primary ethical responsibilities of a business professional in a free society?The Natural Law Is What We Naturally Know
R&L: The concept of natural law underpins the analysis in your latest book What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide . What is the natural law?A Guatemalan Perspective of the Free and Virtuous Society
R&L: What is the Instituto de Gobernanza ? What is its mission?The Higher Law That Undergirds Virtue, Liberty, and the Government
R&L: You have done extensive research and written books on the subject of natural law. What is natural law?Economic Value Added: A Conscience for Business
R&L: In your opinion, what are the primary responsibilities of ethical business people in a free market society?Profitable Business Focuses on Humans First
R&L: I understand that you have a unique way of doing business. Tell me about it.Culture, Law, and the Church: A Pastor's Perspective
R&L:Would you tell us a little bit about how you became the General Secretary of the Assemblies of God?An Orthodox Look at Liberty and Economics in Russia
R&L: In your writings on economics, you say that Orthodox Christian values, while not supporting an unfettered laissez-faire capitalism, do in fact support a socially-responsible, free-market system. How widespread are these views in Russia?The Technological Bluff
Thirty years later, Ellul still has plenty to say in The Technological Bluff, obviously because of the newer, high technologies of the computer chip and the laser beam. And he remains as negative as ever. The technological “bluff” is the implicit assumption in Western society the technological progress, if used rightly, is a good in itself, and the good will always outweigh less-welcome consequences. What has happened, Ellul contends, is that we have become slaves of “technique,” as he calls it, subservient to its survival at all costs.Gary Cooper, Humane Existence, and Deep Ecology
During 1990 my nation, Australia, was graced by the visits of two North American thinkers anxious to help us get our national house in order. The thinkers in question - Drs. Paul Ehrlich and David Suzuki - loom large among the stars in the radical environmentalist sky. Whilst in Australia they were asked by a television journalist anxious for a ten-second “spot” to state in twenty-five words or less the basic conviction they most would like to communicate to their “down-under” audience. Their answer was simple.The Myth of a Value-Free Education
Americans love myths. By “myth,” I do not mean the old-fashioned myths that my generation read in grade school. Many Americans would find reading at that fifth-grade level too difficult these days. What I mean by “myth” is what older generations used to call a fiction. One of the more influential myths presently affecting the American family is the myth of a value-free education. A value-free education is described as one in which students are supposed to be free from any coerced exposure to the values of anyone.Initial Reactions to Centesimus Annus
The Wall Street Journal, May 1 “ Centesimus Annus is a ringing endorsement of the market economy. The endorsement is, however, joined to powerful challenges…