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Dr. Gary Hull is Director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace at Duke University. He is popular with students for his knowledge, passion for the subject, and engaging style. He taught philosophy and business ethics for many years at The Claremont Graduate School, Whittier College, and The Fuqua School of Business. He has served as a corporate advisor, has lectured to business groups - such as The Young Presidents' Organization - and has made numerous appearances on radio and television. Dr. Hull has published articles in newspapers around the country, has spoken at professional and general public conferences around the world, and is a frequent lecturer at universities such as Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA.
 
 

Lectures, Events, and Appearances

  • Upcoming
  • Recent
    • January 5, 2006: Dr. Hull was interviewed on WUNC radio about the fairness of government mandated minimum wages. An archive of the show is available online.
    • November 17, 2005: Dr. Hull lectured on "Multiculturalism" at the University of Florida.
    • July 31, 2005: Dr. Hull's lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," was broadcast on C-SPAN2/BookTV.
    • July 18, 2005: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at the Shaftesbury Society Luncheon sponsored by the John Locke Foundation.
    • May 25, 2005: Dr. Hull was interviewed on The Thom Hartmann Radio Program.
    • May 24, 2005: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California. The event was taped by BookTV on C-SPAN2, to be broadcast at a later date.
    • April 21: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at New York University.
    • April 13-15: Dr. Hull gave his seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
    • April 5: Dr. Hull will be participating in a panel discussion on business ethics as part of Honor Week, sponsored by the Honor Council. The panel will begin at 7:00 PM in Social Sciences 130.
    • September 17, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
    • March 11 & 12, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
    • February 6, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a talk, "The Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure," at the University of Chicago.
    • February 4 & 5, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values & Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
  
   
 

Books and Articles

  • Dr. Hull's
    • Books
      • In progress: "Private Property: The Road to Liberty," tentative title. The
        book explains the true meaning of the right to property, and provides what
        this right has been sorely lacking: a moral foundation. It uses numerous
        examples of property rights violations -- including eminent domain, land-use
        regulations, concerted attacks on copyrights and patents -- to argue that
        the right to property is nearly extinct in America. Dr. Hull also shows how
        the Founders were right in their conviction that all rights -- the rights to
        life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness -- are a unity.
      • The Abolition of Antitrust, Gary Hull, editor and contributing author (Transaction Publishers, May 2005)
        (Read a review at techcentralstation.com.)

         (click here to go to Amazon.com) (click here to go to Transactionpub.com)

        The Abolition of Antitrust asserts that antitrust laws—on economic, legal, and moral grounds—are bad, and provides convincing evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. Every year, new antitrust prosecutions arise in the U.S. courts, as in the cases against 3M and Visa/MasterCard, as well as a number of ongoing antitrust cases, such as those involving Microsoft and college football’s use of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Gary Hull and the contributing authors show that these cases—as well as the very Antitrust Act itself—are based on an erroneous interpretation of the history of American business, are premised on bad economics and equivocate between economic and political power—the power to produce versus the power to use physical force. They argue that antitrust prosecutions are based on a horrible moral inversion: that it is acceptable to sacrifice America’s best producers.
         
      • The Ayn Rand Reader, Gary Hull, coeditor (Penguin/Plume, 1999)
        (click here to go to Amazon.com)
    • Articles
      • "The Collapse of Building" by Dr. Gary Hull (Automated Builder, June-August 2003)
        "Government controls are destroying the building industry, and are devastating the lives of the builders. The regulatory system has created an Alice-in-Wonderland world, in which builders do not and cannot know what obstacles will be thrown in their paths. It is a world where justice has been turned on its head, where production is anathematized and where the arbitrary reigns. Builders are desperately awaiting their true defenders—defenders who will uphold the individual's right to work for his benefit alone, and to own unequivocally the fruits of his production."
        For free copies of the entire article, published in pamphlet form, contact Dr. Gary Hull at         gahull@soc.duke.edu.
      • "Patent Piracy" by Dr. Gary Hull (Barron's magazine, June 2, 2003)
        (click here for pdf file)
      • "Pre-emptive Wrong" by Dr. Gary Hull (Barron's magazine, October 28, 2002)
        (click here for pdf file)
      • "Enron's Off-The-Book Casualty: Freedom" by Dr. Gary Hull (forbes.com, March 6, 2002)
        (click here for pdf file)

    • Op-eds

  • Recommended
    • Books
      • Enemies of Christopher Columbus by Thomas Bowden - This book is an uncompromising defense of Christopher Columbus and of Western Civilization. The author uses the question and answer format to demolish numerous myths spread by multiculturalism.
      • The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America by Peter Schwartz
        "America's foreign policy, Mr. Schwartz argues, is driven by the view that the pursuit of self-interest is morally tainted--i.e., that if we wish to do what is right, we must sacrifice our interests for the sake of other nations. This is why we are so appeasingly apologetic when it comes to asserting our right to live free from the threat of force. It is why we are so hesitant in implementing our moral obligation to eliminate all such threats by military means. It is why we are failing in our war against terrorism."
    • Articles