Earlier this week, Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. wrote about twelve theses for a Christian understanding of economics, making this assertion: Regrettably, many American Christians know little about...

Yesterday brought more news from the heartbreaking situation in Venezuela. CNN reports that president Nicolas Maduro increased the country’s minimum wage by 40 percent – and that hike...

When I was a teenager, I took a school trip to the former Soviet Union before its official economic collapse in 1991. I had no formal or proper...

Yesterday the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) announced some astounding statistics in its upcoming “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism.” The survey reveals that a surprising...

As a Christian economist, I’m often asked to comment on the incredible pace of change regarding technology, innovation, and its impact on the economy – and how Christians...

In his essay “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” author James A. Baldwin famously said, “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”...

Ideas have consequences. John Piper articulates this when he tells the story of Victor Frankl, who was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. Regarding...

Serving one another and free-markets might not spring to your mind simultaneously. But should they? Does service or competition best characterize the free-market system? Defining Free Markets A...

Taking a day off to celebrate our labor seems like a good time to ask: Why do people work? The Labor-Leisure Tradeoff This is a question economists never...