Category: Economics and Business
Mustafa Akyol on the Basic Compatibility of Islam with Free Market Economy
A special treat for the attendees of Acton University, Mustafa Akyol delivered a lunch lecture addressing the principles of Islam that are basically compatible with free markets and free societies. While his comments were brief and limited by the restraints...
The Danger of Misplaced Pity
I have often found myself banging my head against the wall in frustration with the profligate waste of youthful energy exhibited by groups like Rock the Vote, Green Peace, and other groups that take on grave global issues which, if...
Difference: The Opportunity for Love
A second intriguing idea (read the first here) suggested by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse in her lecture on the Economic Way of Thinking is that whereas politicians, socialists, and all sorts of folks that populate our opinion making industries see...
The Economic Way of Thinking
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse just delivered a fascinating lecture overviewing the basics of economic thinking. Beginning with the basic premises of economic science, she rapidly moved through the basic methods of economic inquiry, principles that are foundational to the science...
Anthropology, the Economists' Foundation
A struggling internet connection in my hotel delayed the timeliness of this post, however, I’ve received promises that the network will be fixed before the morning’s end, in which case posts should be more frequent. Connectivity foibles alone could not...
Acton University: Economics, Freedom, and Christianity
. . .what is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?” Alexis de Tocqueville Today the Acton Institute, and educational and research group promoting the development of free and virtuous societies through individual liberty and Christian principles,...
Terror-Free Oil: Idealism Meets Capitalism On the Streets of Omaha
Joe Kauffman, spokesman for the Terror-Free Oil Initiative, has decided to take a popular water cooler issue head-on by announcing the grand opening of the world’s first Terror-Free gas station. Opening in the first part of February in Omaha, Nebraska,...
Is Aid to Africa Effective?
The German magazine Spiegel ran an article recently attacking the notion that aid to Africa is as effective as commonly conceived. The article argues that aid to third-world African countries fosters an unhealthy dependency and has been proven to be...
Gates and China
Paul Musgrave over at In the Agora offers an interesting critique of Bill Gates’s recent speech at the World Economic Forum. Gates’s heralded Chinas as having a “brand new form of capitalism.” Musgrave, in response, writes: Similarly, Gates’s description of...