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Stephen R. C. Hicks

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Stephen R. C. Hicks

@SRCHicks

Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

USA

Joined July 2009

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The academy-entrepreneur nexus: "PitchBook’s latest university rankings once again place Berkeley at No. 1 among schools producing venture-backed founders, with Stanford, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT rounding out the top five.⁠ ⁠"The rankings, based on data
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Apr 16, 2022
Trust the social science.
Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Nov 10, 2025
“The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by. He was so quick. There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Jan 13, 2024
The new generation, I hope.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Jun 7, 2025
More capitalism vs. More socialism.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Mar 23, 2023
I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2000 times. So a q: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize?
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Feb 26, 2023
Well said.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Jan 21, 2023
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero (circa 40 BCE)
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Jun 17, 2025
Foucault visit Iran in 1978 and praised its budding theocratic revolution as a site of resistance against the liberal-capitalist West he hoped to subvert. One reason why the usual suspects are still supporting the Iranian regime. I have a lecture on Foucault's post-modernism and
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Feb 7, 2024
Where slavery abolished in the modern world, from first to latest.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Mar 25, 2023
On the constant doom-saying stephenhicks.org/2023/03/25/on-… Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize? I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen ...
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Jun 16, 2021
Well made.
Stephen R. C. Hicks
@SRCHicks
Apr 11, 2025
Well-conceived diagram.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Sep 13, 2025
Personal anecdote: I was in class at my university in Canada when it was announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot. No one cheered but my professor and several students had big smiles and were delighted at the news. I was an apolitical philosophy student at the time. Their
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