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Three things I need to achieve in 2025
I am, by nature, a goal-driven person. Perhaps it was the topic of my dissertation and the extensive literature search and subsequent...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 32 min read
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You could not pay me enough....
... to be a college president. You Could Not Pay Me Enough to Be a College President Soon enough, the capable few won’t want the job...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 15, 20239 min read
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Harvard goes shambolic
In the recent example (December 7,2023) of shameless and shameful arrogance from the DEI-driven, "elite" universities, the Harvard Board...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 13, 20231 min read
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Sustainable management: Poverty, opportunity, justice
There is a tendency when studying the concept of sustainability for one to think in terms of threats, meaning threats to the condition of...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 13, 202330 min read
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Higher ed as a threat rather than an opportunity
Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism....

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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Poverty, education and teenage girl births
A former Jesuit started this conversation and analysis by sending me a link to a December 31, 2022 New York Times article, noting the...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 12, 20233 min read
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Cutting charity: Why give if the government does it for you?
December 15, 2021 What happens when the government increases household taxes in the name of expanding social services to others? One of...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Dobbs and the revitalization of Democracy
December 16, 2022. Despite the progressive narrative going in the opposite direction, Dobbs served to restore democracy. And, in any...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 5, 20232 min read
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Mis-measuring and mis-managing poverty
November 20, 2022. Let's define poverty. In class, I defined poverty as an absence of opportunity, ranging from an opportunity to survive...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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On capitalism, wealth and inequality
Time for one more politically incorrect, unawake dive into the world of income inequality. Jordan Peterson, Glenn Loury and Douglas...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Jordan Peterson nails it - twice
1. “The World Is Doing Much Better Than We're Being Told..." Not unlike the first two weeks of my management and leadership lectures....

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20231 min read
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Best of both worlds: Prosocial behavior drives out antisocial
Abstract Antisocial behaviors are addictive, self-destructive, and harmful to others. People who choose to partake in antisocial...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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Maid: Bad choices -- not bad policies -- create poverty
Poverty is most often the result of poor choices, not of capitalism. In fact, capitalism has been the greatest eradicator of poverty the...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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'Equity' is communism, not socialism
In class, it was a simple illustration of social justice, and how and where it can be defined: First, in terms of opportunity, or inputs....

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism. Thomas Sowell on American Interests (1983) discussing how to create...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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A meaningful carbon tariff
A better way to save the planet -- for everybody, for good, and for less.... Four years ago, SOCIETY published my simple yet politically...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Niall Ferguson: The six "killer apps" of western civilization
An oldie but a real goodie, in the regular rotation for my management classes, highlighting the importance of innovation in prosperity as...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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Wealth and poverty: Acts 4:32-35
The whole group of believers was united, heart and soul; no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Characteristics of wealth-creating countries
More from the management notes archives. David Landes (upper left); Niall Ferguson (lower right) Landes and Ferguson provided excellent,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20237 min read
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From poverty to prosperity through opportunity
More from the management files. Proverb: Give a man to fish and we will not be hungry for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will never go...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20237 min read
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