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Wharton Houston Speakers Forum March 2010 - RESCHEDULED
Sponsored by Merrill Lynch
Robert Bradley, CEO Institute for Energy Research
April 22, 2010 at the Coronado Club
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EVENT RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 22, 2010
Institute for Energy Research
Robert Bradley
Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of the Institute for Energy Research, a 501(c) 3 educational foundation with offices in Houston, Texas, and Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and of the Competitive Enterprise Institute; a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and an honorary senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Bradley, who holds a BA and MA in economics and a PhD in political economy, received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2002 for his work on free market approaches to energy sustainability. Bradley worked at Enron for 16 years. As director of public policy analysis, he was a trenchant critic of the company’s (government-dependent) investments in wind and solar and climate alarmism. His principled opposition to Ken Lay’s “political capitalism” model is documented at http://www.politicalcapitalism.org/enron/. Bradley is author, most recently, of Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy, an application of the capitalist worldview to corporate and energy controversies. His website www.politicalcapitalism.org expands on material in this work and in the two forthcoming books in his trilogy on corporate governance and political capitalism in the energy industry. Bradley’s other books are: The Mirage of Oil Protection (1989); Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (2 volumes: 1996), called "a landmark in regulatory studies"; Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (ALEC: 2000); Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) Energy: The Master Resource (2004), which Milton Friedman praised as a “splendid” book that “effectively debunks the widespread predictions of energy doom." Bradley, who blogs at www.masterresource.org, has also published numerous essays pertaining to government intervention, with particular application to energy markets. His public-policy approach combines an understanding of the historical record with market-process economics and libertarian social theory.
"Corporate social responsibility" is a popular (and to critics trendy) concept in business ethics today. Most professors proffer CSR as if good-versus-bad was objective and tradeoffs between 'social' goals clear. Our guest speaker will challenge the notion of CSR using real world examples, including those from Enron where he was director of public policy analysis and a speechwriter for Ken Lay. (Bradley challenged Enron's "green" image and political capitalism model here: http://www.politicalcapitalism.org/enron/.) Bradley offers a competing ideal for corporate governance and public policies toward business based on old-fashioned virtue, principled entrepreneurship™, and "simple rules for a complex world". His 'deep capitalism' model draws upon his recent book, Capitalism at Work (Scrivener Press, 2009).
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