The Papal View from the Global South
by Paul SeatonAccording to Francis, the world is divided into haves and have-nots, and the impoverished circumstances and dismal prospects of the latter are principally caused by the former. Continue Reading »
Mammon Ascendant
by David Bentley HartSo, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain reactions to my reaction to various reactions to the pope’s last encyclical, when it occurred to me that the one thing on which Hegelians of every stripe—right or left, theological or . . . . Continue Reading »
Is Liberalism a Heresy?
by Francesca Aran MurphyThe only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market-oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law as the means to the common good. Some religiously engaged conservative intellectuals cannot accept this. What drives their animus against the only workable form of conservatism in . . . . Continue Reading »
Now Is the Time to Invest in the Future
by Pete SpiliakosThe recent news of GDP growth indicates that the United States has turned a corner, but that does not mean conservatives should deemphasize economic issues. We are at a good place in the business cycle, but even in this good place, problems remain, future problems are visible, and the good times won’t last forever. Continue Reading »
Sacramental Economy
by Peter J. LeithartMoney is something of a mystery. Classical economics views money as a commodity that is selected as a medium of exchange and standard of value, which enables a society to grow from a barter system to a more complex and efficient economy. As Ole Bjerg points out in Making Money, a recent excursion into the philosophy of money, the classical theory leaves some puzzles in its wake. For starters, it doesn’t fit known historical facts. Anthropologists have yet to find a pure barter economy. Media of exchange always seem to be there already. Continue Reading »
Some Ways to Not Ruin your Economy…
by Carl Scott. . . even if, like Germany’s Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998-2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for . . . . Continue Reading »
10 Ways to Ruin your Economy
by Carl ScottSurely there are at least 50 different ways President Obama and the Democratic Congress of 2006-2010 have employed, but Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of the top ten. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Conservative Case for Walmart
by Joe CarterSam Walton’s company gave us rural citizens options and opportunities that we had never known. Continue Reading »
The Popes and the Economy
by Francis CanavanPapal doctrine on political economy has long been misunderstood as well as mistrusted among those economic liberals who in the United States have the curious habit of calling themselves conservatives. The recent publication of John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus, commemorating as it does the . . . . Continue Reading »
Asking the Wrong Question
by Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, & Catholics Confront the Bishops’ Letter on the Economyedited by charles straineerdmans, 257 pages, $13.95 Based upon its subtitle, one could imagine any of several different tacks this book might have taken. Editor Charles R. . . . . Continue Reading »
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