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Religion, Economics, and the Market Paradox
R&L: In your latest book, you compare economics to religion. Why? Nelson: Because economics is a belief system with powerful moral implications. I use the term religion in a broad sense, as something that provides a framework for one's values or some purpose to one's life. I am convinced that people must have some sort of religion, that no one can live entirely free from a framework of meaning. Of course, not all religions require a God, as Judaism or Christianity do.A Powerful Consequence: An Interview with Francisco Flores
What a change El Salvador has gone through. What a challenge. How do individuals deal with that challenge, especially with regard to their faith?A Tsunami Every Day: An Interview with Tony Hall
How has your faith shaped your political priorities, especially with regard to the fight against hunger?The Economy of trust
What can the world of religion and ethics contribute to economics?Second-Career clergy and parish business
Photo: Getty Images The seminary in The Collar is what's called a second-career seminary, a seminary for men who have come to their vocation later in life. Some of the seminarians featured in the work, like the retired marketing executive Jim Pemberton, come from significant careers in the business world. What are these men looking for in the priesthood, and do they make good priests?Exporting hope
Growing up in Estonia, when was the first moment that you realized there was something wrong with the Soviet system?America's challenge
Chuck Colson What intellectual tools do Christians need to effectively protect the truth in a post-Christian world, and do Christians have those tools?A Century of Catholic Social Thought
This year marks the centenary of the promulgation of Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. Over the next several months there will be a myriad of scholarly conferences, lectures, sermons, masses, etc., commemorating the anniversary of this seminal Church document and the tradition of social thought that it inaugurated. Collections of essays celebrating this anniversary are already beginning to find their way out of publishing houses and into stores and catalogs.Illiberal Education
Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education has stirred a hornet’s nest of controversy in the academy for good reason – it is the only book-length attack on the policies that are in vogue at many of this country’s most distinguished academic institutions. The considerable press coverage this book has received indicates that D’Souza says something that badly needs saying and says it well.Providence and Liberty
The Foundation for Economic Education has sold, since 1950, approximately half a million copies of its edition of Bastiat’s The Law, in the Russell translation. This makes the book a “best seller,” despite that the Bastiat name is familiar to a mere handful. Few textbook surveys of political philosophies or economic theories mention him; few academics recognize the name.The Content of Our Character
Shelby Steele’s book, The Content of Our Character, is the best statement of its kind dealing with the issues surrounding racial antagonism often felt between black and white Americans. Written by a black professor of English who recently described himself to Time magazine as a “classical liberal,” this book is a striking analysis of the psychological factors involved in issues about race in the United States.The Economic Problem in Biblical and Patristic Thought
“Due to the automation” of E.J. Brill’s “systems” (forsooth!) this remarkable book has been kept waiting nearly two years for a notice. I hope that it will now receive at long last the attention–and the sales–it deserves.