"The joint stock corporation is without doubt the most important institution in the world today." Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation. …
Alma. The Young Man in the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is full of incredible surprises including literary beauty and sophistication. One example is the story of Alma the Elder. He is introduced in the Book of Mormon (Mosiah 17:2) in the following way. "But there was one among them …
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The First Mention of Christ in the Book of Mormon
I taught a Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University summer 2012. During one of the classes, we had this teaching moment. I explained that the Book of Mormon focuses on Jesus Christ. Indeed, "Christ" is mentioned more than 300 times in the …
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Entrepreneurial Challenge: Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Business of It?
Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Business of It? Lecture 7 from Yale course "Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform" with Douglas W. Rae. …
Freedom is a way of overcoming our own fallibility
"Freedom is a way of overcoming our own fallibility." Property, Freedom, and the Essential Job of Government. "If there were omniscient men, if we could know all the affects the attainment of our present wishes but also our future wants and …
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Creative Destruction: Sell the Best Product at the Lowest Price in a Given Market
Yale course on capitalism lecture "From Marxist Historicism to Howard Head's Tennis Racket" originally titled "Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, and an Economic System Incapable of Coming to Rest." Marxist Historicism (which for the most part has been …
