This presentation reviews the history of our leadership course created at the Simon School of Business in the years 2004-2008. The course is co-authored by Werner Erhard, Michael Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari Granger. The intellectual and pedagogical development of the course continues to the...

This pilot is a pre/post comparative assessment of a leadership course developed and delivered using an innovative, ontological/phenomenological model of education. Participants in the course delivered in Singapore in July of 2014 provided measures of the effectiveness of their leadership before...

My congratulations and admiration to the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and the scholars who have evidenced the courage to tackle a subject as difficult and opaque as the Gruter Institute Project on Values and Free Enterprise. With the support of the John Templeton Foundation,...

Commencement Address given to the University of Toronto, June 15, 2005. In this talk I enumerate and briefly discuss eleven commitments that form the foundations of an extraordinary life and of leadership. They range from a commitment to a never-ending search for truth, a willingness to delay...

Capitalism is far and away the most effective system ever invented for peacefully organizing cooperation among large numbers of human beings. The success enjoyed by capitalistic economies during the last 70 years is in sharp contrast to the dramatic and widespread failure of communist and...

The discussion in Chapter 1 provides a useful general introduction to the subject of freedom. We continue in this chapter to analyze the details of applications of the Jensen-Meckling definition of freedom. We begin by addressing the following question: Why are the constraints that restaurant...

With the possible exception of love, probably no word in the English language generates a more sympathetic response than the word freedom. Everyone favors freedom. We prize it not only for ourselves, but also as a characteristic of our society. Most of us, however, have given little thought to...

This book covers three separate and related topics: the definition and analysis of freedom, the logical foundations of capitalism and a dualistic model of human behavior that incorporates both rational and non-rational action. I provide a new and clarifying view of each topic and analyze the...

It is important to avoid using 'perfection' as a criterion to judge scientific papers. Virtually all papers that make important contributions leave many questions unanswered and many even contain errors. It is also important to distinguish the criterion used to judge the scientific process as a...

The basic problem in the conflict between political democrary and free markets is the following: individuals, you and I, can make ourselves and our families better off in two major ways: (1) By expending time and other resources operating in the private sector to produce goods and services (be...