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Professor of philosophy and business ethics, co-founder of Reason magazine
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Tibor Machan, Ph.D.: The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University
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Reference
Tibor R. Machan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Tibor Richard Machan, Ph.D. (born 18 March 1939), professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Professorship of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. ..."
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Biography
Chapman University, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics
Hoover Institution
Laissez Faire Books
Associations
Board of Advisors, Advocates for Self-Government
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute
Co-founder, Reason Foundation
Web Pages
Tibor Machan - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government
Archived Columns
Orange County Register
since May 2002
Archived Articles
Ludwig von Mises Institute
since June 1999
Strike The Root
since Dec 2002
Articles
Hero of the Day - Tibor Machan (1), The Daily Objectivist
Hero of the Day - Tibor Machan (2), The Daily Objectivist
Writings
Boxer's Confusion about Ownership, 4 May 2007
Related Topics: Property Rights, Communism, John Locke
Explains the absurdity of California Senator Barbara Boxer's statement that public lands are "owned ... by the American people"
"The moral of Wittgenstein's gesture is plain: Ownership without the authority to decide to what use what is being owned will be put is meaningless, absurd. ... If the American people need to be allowed to make certain kinds of use of the lands Senator Boxer's bill makes public property, they aren't the owners of such property."
On gouging, Rational Review, 8 Sep 2004
Related Topic: Prices
"In a free society whoever is selling something is free to ask whatever price he or she desires. ... It is when some take advantage of those hit with ... multiple emergencies ... that the charge of gouging makes sense ... Exactly when this is cannot be said ahead of time, nor from afar ..."
Some reflections on Georgism, Rational Review, 29 Jul 2004
Related Topic: Property Rights
"Since there is no one else who has done so much for the creation of this value than the individual who recognized the potential and then acted on it, he or she ought to be the one to use and control it­-- he has property rights to it."
Why Markets Are Dreaded, 27 Apr 2007
Related Topic: The Free Market
Insights on why higher education professionals contend they should not have to compete in the free market and instead governments should run colleges and universities
"Markets are arenas wherein people exchange goods and services with one another, once they have freely reached agreement on terms. The market is, in other words, a place of voluntary commercial and professional interaction. ... Markets are free forums of trade and those in markets are free agents dealing on terms they can agree to."
Books Authored
A Primer on Business Ethics, 2003
Related Topics: Business, Ethics
Ayn Rand, 1 Mar 2000
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being, 1998
Generosity: Virtue in the Civil Society
    by Tibor R. Machan, Cato Institute, 1998
Individual Rights Reconsidered: Are the Truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Lasting?
    by Tibor R. Machan (Editor), 2001
Related Topic: United States Declaration of Independence
Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite, 2004
Related Topic: Rights
The Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist, 2004
Autobiographical
The Passion for Liberty, Aug 2003
Related Topic: Liberty
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