. . . stems from the increased politicization of society and the growth of government, not private enterprise, as I argue in today’s Baltimore Sun. The article is a critique of the enterprise of university teaching of “business ethics” courses, which are mostly a lot of Marxian-inspired and economically-uninformed capitalism bashing. At my own university (Loyola University Maryland), for example, all such classes are taught by leftist lawyers who have little or no educational background in business or economics, even though they are business school faculty. One of them even came to Loyola from that citadel of ethical purity, the labor union movement!
10:28 am on August 22, 2010