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Thursday, April 7, 2011

President Obama's Role in Budget Negotiations: Undercutting His Role in Presiding

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On April 5, 2011, President Obama observed, “We’re going to have some very tough negotiations. And there are going to be, I think, very shar...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Political Ideology in a U.S. Federal Healthcare Budget: Disentangling Redistribution, Government and Federalism

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A shift in power from the U.S. Governments to those of the states is distinct from a redution in the size of government. These are distinct,...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Transocean Executive Compensation Bonuses Ignored the Rig Explosion of 2010

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Transocean, the world’s largest off-shore oil rig company, owned the Deep Water Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April o...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Government Employees and Manufacturing Jobs: Takers and Makers?

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I contend that we need to expand our notion of “making” in the twenty-first century global economy. We also need to reduce our conception of...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Social Media Companies: Is Blocking Political-Protester Content a Political or Business Decision?

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The question of the role of social media internet companies as protesters have used social-media platforms to communicate before and duri...

Flickering Ethics at Flickr: On the Ethics of Enforcement

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The New York Times has an interesting piece on the ethics involved in providing a social media service for the public.   The article desc...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Arrogance on Stilts during a Flood or an Educated American Electorate?

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According to Newsweek , when the magazine asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test in early 2011, 29 percent ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Two Governmental Sovereignties in American Federalism: Medical Marijuana and Drug Trafficking Across State Lines

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"Federal agencies conducted 26 raids on medical marijuana facilities in 13 Montana cities [in mid-March, 2011], as agents seized thous...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The U.S. War Powers Act: The Case of Obama's Decision on Ameican Involvement in Libya

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The New York Times describes the War Powers Act of 1973 as follows: “(P)assed in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, [the act] puts limits on...
Monday, March 21, 2011

On the Irrational Exuberance of a Market's Bubble: The Tech Industry

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I contend that the degree of uncertainty related to the  expectation  of future profits in the social media companies means that that indus...

Food Prices Rising: Will the Global Population Growth Outstrip Food Supply?

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I contend that it is in our interest as a species to see that our population size is managed toward a steady state rather than as a maximiz...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Stakeholder Management: Property Rights

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Stakeholder theory can be interpreted as containing a series of prescriptive leaps in the direction of giving stakeholders a greater and gre...

Stakeholder Management: Property Rights

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Stakeholder theory can be interpreted as containing a series of prescriptive leaps in the direction of giving stakeholders a greater and g...
Friday, March 4, 2011

The Bicycle Principle of Business Ethics: Walmart as Mediocre

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I once bought a bike at Walmart.  To my chagrin, the bike had very little coasting ability. After riding down into a valley, I looked forwa...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

BP's CEO Tony Hayward: A Golden Parachute Despite Having Failed on Safety

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In terms of corporate governance setting executive compensation to align the employee's incentives to the financial interests of the co...
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