Articles by Stephen B. Young
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The Gospel of Winning: Trump’s Philosophy, and Its Policy Implications
Stephen B. Young – Star Tribune,
6 Feb 2017
In Trump’s mind, his appointees are all “winners.” So what does Trump’s Gospel of Winning imply for his policy agenda? Domestically, first, it will not validate government entitlements to “victims.” It rejects the founding premise of the entitlement state that the government must take from those who succeed to advantage those who have failed. The victim-first vision was offered early on by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution.
→ read full articleMORAL CAPITALISM
Stephen B. Young,
12 Oct 2008
Is Moral Capitalism Possible? Can morality be made relevant to business? Can virtue and self-interest ever coincide? If not, then a moral capitalism is not possible. Morality is an idea invented by people; it does not exist of its own in the natural order. Therefore, morality must be made to happen through human action. The […]
→ read full articleWHAT WE HAVE KNOWN AS “WALL STREET” IS NOW STUNNINGLY NO MORE
Stephen B. Young,
6 Oct 2008
Manhattan’s great investment banks are gone. The last two – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley – are converting into banks, submitting to more intrusive government regulation in return for more secure sources of capital. Communism couldn’t kill this Wall Street; capitalism, however, did. Adam Smith won out over Karl Marx. This "Wall Street" died at […]
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