“The Financial Crisis: What We (Still) Haven’t Learned”

by Samuel Gregg D.Phil. - November 18, 2009

Acton Director of Research Samuel Gregg offers five lessons from the financial crisis. "One measure of a society’s inner strength is its willingness to learn from mistakes and alter behavior appropriately," Gregg writes. Will we heed the lessons?

“After the Berlin Wall -- the Enduring Power of Socialism”

by Michael Miller - November 11, 2009

We relegated socialism to the dustbin of history, but socialism never actually died and in many ways it has actually gained influence," writes Michael Miller. He looks at the long march of determined cultural Marxists through Western institutions.

September/October 2009

• Acton Partners with Stewardship Council
• Acton Summer Interns Shine
• Video Shorts Engage Viewers
• Acton and You

Volume 19, Number 4 • Fall 2009

“Debating the Depression: An Interview with Amity Shlaes”

Amity Shlaes is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also written for the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member. Her most recent book, The Forgotten Man, is a New York Times National Bestseller. Amity Shales is currently working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge and her book about the 1960s titled The Silent Majority will be available in August of 2010. She recently spoke with Religion & Liberty's managing editor Ray Nothstine.

Journal of Markets & Morality

Volume 12, Number 1 • Spring 2009

The Spring issue of the journal includes a noteworthy study by Alan T. Y. Chan,, and Shu-kam Lee. In “Christ and Business Culture: Another Classification of Christians in Workplaces According to an Empirical Study in Hong Kong,” Chan and Lee outline four types of Christians at work: Christian soldiers, panic followers, strugglers, and Sunday Christians. Following the classification, Chan and Lee “develop a model of potential, evolutionary processes that these Christian types may follow using game-theory analysis” and conclude with “an empirical data set, which was conducted in Hong Kong, to illustrate our classifications and suggest potential strategies to efficiently allocate resources within Christian churches.”

Also in this issue:

• Andrew Abela: "Subsidiarity and the Just Wage: Implications of Catholic Social Teaching for the Minimum-Wage Debate"
• Kim Hawtrey & Stuart Dullard: "Corporate Virtue and the Joint-Stock Company"
• Steven Loomis & Jacob Rodriguez: "The Violence of Aggregation: Amartya Sen’s Possibility of Social Choice"
• Stefano Solari & Daniele Corrado: "Social Justice and Economic Order According to Natural Law"
• Jennifer Dirmeyer & Paola Revelo & Walter E. Block: "Poverty, Dignity, Economic Development, and the Catholic Church"
• Maurizio Ragazzi: "Concordats Today: From the Second Vatican Council to John Paul II"
• Keith Aaron Boozer: "Magnanimity: Aquinas’ Examination of the Aristocratic Virtue"

This issue also contains a wealth of helpful and incisive reviews of the latest books in Christian social thought, ethics and economics, and the philosophy, history, and methodology of economics. The editorial by executive editor Stephen Grabill, “Protestant Social Thought,” and article abstracts of current issues are freely available to nonsubscribers (you can sign up for a subscription here, including the very affordable electronic-only access option). And as per our "moving wall" policy of two issues, the most recent publicly-available archived issue is volume 11, number 1 (Spring 2008).