A Proper Christian Approach to the Environment (DVD)
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Recorded at the Lord Acton Lecture Series on May 3, 2000, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rev. Robert Sirico, president of Acton Institute, and Rev. Matthew Fox, president of the University of Creation Spirituality, discuss and debate - from very different perspect...
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Research
Acton's Core Principles
The Core Principles provides a framework for Acton Research as it seeks to make clear the path to a free and virtuous society. Read about the Core Principles here.
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Acton Research
The Research Department serves as the academic research facility of the Acton Institute, accommodating in-house and externally-based scholars from a variety of nationalities, Christian confessions, and different intellectual disciplines. Read More »
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From the Journal of Markets & Morality
Should Business Be Responsible for Employee Health Care?
by
Dr.
Donald
P.
Condit
As U.S. firms struggle to compete in the global marketplace with escalating employee benefit costs, workers are increasingly liable for medical expenses. Many citizens lack health care insurance altogether. Should corporations be held accountable for employee health care coverage? After a historical review of U.S. employee health care benefits, the “shareholder” and “stakeholder” models of corporate responsibility are considered, as well as Catholic social teaching. Despite the well-established precedent for employer provided medical benefits, the current trends are not sustainable. While acknowledging differences, consensus is possible with these theories of corporate responsibility. Companies with sufficient competitive advantage may be able to provide these, and other, benefits to attract and retain employees. However, firms should not be compelled to provide medical benefits. In fact, the common good may be better served when health care insurance is obtained outside the workplace.
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In the Liberal Tradition
Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920)
 “ we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation. On the other hand by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.”
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If we dealt with institutions, antiquity would be low. It realized no liberty. But in the domain of ideas it ranks high.
~ Lord Acton
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