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Green Markets, Evangelicals, and the Poor

One issue that has received less and less attention in the run-up to November 4th, and especially since the Economic Crisis of 2008, is environmental stewardship and global warming.

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Marx, Money, and the Market's Future

The Communist Manifesto, that little piece of literature so dog-eared and marked by nearly every college grad, is full of statements that have become particularly interesting in light of

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Antiprenneurs: How Free-Market Economies Can Save the World (or maybe just the rainforest)

Capitalism is not a system invented by greedy people to get more money. It is not the primary cause of the “economic crisis” looming large in the minds and T.V. sets of most Americans today. It is not the reason […]

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Value-adds and American Ingenuity

“Everyone has to focus on what exactly is their value-add…We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is at the cutting edge of that change [like America], it is hard […]

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Imperialism and the Liberal Left

Imperialism is a word most often found in the mouths of green and hip college students, slung about in derision of cold-hearted, greedy conservatives that do little more than

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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