Entrepreneurship

The Free Market 26, no. 12 (December 2005)

Paul Poenicke, a student from my honors seminar on Spontaneous Order, sent me this Slate article

Web Entrepreneur Banks on ‘Bum-vertising’ - Homeless Advocates Say

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

When life hands you lemons ...

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

The entrepreneur is a key figure in the market economy. In a dynamic economy, ideas, products, and services are constantly changing. Entrepreneurship, broadly defined, refers to actions of individuals as they strive to cope with constantly changing market conditions.1 When viewed in this way, all market participants-consumers, producers, and investors-engage in entrepreneurial activity.

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 6, No. 1, 1992.

Insider trading per se is obtaining information from non-public sources and using it for purposes of enhancing one's financial advantage. Is there anything unethical or morally wrong in this exercise?

From the Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 27, April 1961.