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Tibor R. Machan

Tibor R. Machan (1939 - 2016) was a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and held the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.

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What is Morally Right With Insider Trading?

07/20/2005 Articles of Interest Tibor R. Machan

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?

“Milton Friedman & the Human Good”

06/13/2009 Libertarian Papers Tibor R. Machan

I wish to consider the skeptical stance on "sinning," or virtue and vice, is it correct, and if not, whether it follows that liberty must be sacrificed?

A Problem With Aristotle’s Ethical Essentialism

03/28/2010 Libertarian Papers Tibor R. Machan

This discussion is motivated by both my sympathy with Aristotle's meta-physics and my problems with certain elements of his ethics.

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Publications

The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy

06/15/1988 Tibor R. Machan

Machan argues that it is inappropriate to regard the mechanistic viewpoint as the scientific way of looking at human life. Machan proposes that we reject this as our model of proper science which is, after all, extrapolated from one of the natural

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The Austrian Theory of Subjective Value: A Philosopher’s View

06/16/2005 Tibor R. Machan

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 15 June 2005.

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