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As painful as the financial crisis is in its own right, the public reaction is even more disturbing: a majority of Americans are blaming the free market and running to the government to fix things. They fail to realize that we haven't had a free market....
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by Jordan J. Ballor
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by E. Calvin Beisner
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by Jordan J. Ballor
by Jordan J. Ballor
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Dr. Andrew Abela to receive the Acton Institute's 2009 Novak Award
Dr. Andrew Abela, Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair-elect of the Department of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, is the recipient of the 2009 Novak Award. Believing that anti-free market perspectives seem to dominate discussion about the social impact of business, Dr. Abela is working to explore Christian ethics further to show how these issues can be resolved more humanely and effectively through market-oriented approaches. Read More...
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In the Liberal Tradition
Francisco Suarez (1548 - 1617)
“...if a legitimate prince governs tyrannically and no other means of self-defence can be found than the expulsion and deposition of the king, then the people, acting as a whole...may depose him.”