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Michael HendrixEconomics and Business

Why Theology Has Something to Say About Economics

Our theology needs to speak to our economics. We turned to psychology to better understand economics; theology provides further assistance.

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

The Places Markets Shouldn't Go

Michael Sandel on the moral limits of markets: These examples illustrate a broader point: some of the good things in life are degraded if turned into commodities. So to decide

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

Poverty, the Limits of Materialism, and George MacDonald

Christianity Today recently put together a peculiarly insufficient list of ways to help the poor that was ably and summarily criticized by Peter Greer, whose work with Hope International stands somewhere in the nexus of awesome and jaw-dropping. But they […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

The (A)Morality of Material Resources

Following up on yesterday's musings about the proper distribution of material resources, I thought I'd walk through a bit more O'Donovan for us all.

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

A few thoughts on Wealth Inequality

What sort of problem is wealth inequality, if it is a problem at all? That's the question that's been ably posed to me by a commenter,

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

Utopia and Capitalist Christianity

Dr. Craig Carter was gracious enough to respond to my write-up of the Wallis-Brooks non-throwdown.  Excerpts and brief replies follow. What does it mean for society to

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

Wallis vs. Brooks: The Debate that Wasn't.

Capitalism may not have a soul, but working relations between Jim Wallis and Arthur Brooks might have a future. The event last Thursday at Wheaton College turned more tea party

Andrew WalkerEconomics and Business

The Problem of Beck

Over at his blog, Denny Burk highlights a brief video detailing why he does not care for Glenn Beck’s politics, even though Beck, like Burk presumably, is an economic conservative. And on this issue, Burk is absolutely correct in denouncing […]

TexPro-LifeEconomics and Business

The (Economic?) Case for Babies

I’m in the market for babies and, based on the research, it’s prime time to be having them.  Happily married, financially stable, and with a happiness quotient that

Rebecca ElizabethEconomics and Business

The Kickoff to Acton University 2010 - Father Sirico Speaks

“You have never encountered a mere mortal.” Men are either “immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” Even at the beginning of an Acton conference its always popular to quote C.S.

Andrew WalkerEconomics and Business

Rhetoric v. Substance

Robert Parham from EthicsDaily.com has a proposal for healthcare reform: Get it Passed! Filled with rhetorically charged missives which casts healthcare opponents as bourgeoisie and “individualistic,” Parham, who myopically makes no mention of abortion mandates, reduces the argument between the […]

TexEconomics and Business

APEC 2008

Eyes are on Peru this week, and this time they aren’t the ever-watchful eyes of NGOs monitoring fair and just elections, nor are they the eyes of the bulldog military that are constantly on guard against drug trafficking. Peru is […]