Where have all the heroes gone? I recently watched a Veggie Tales movie with my son called “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.” Early in the movie a...
Today and tomorrow I will be at Birmingham Southern University, lecturing on the morality of free enterprise. As a Christian and economist, this is something I love to...
Do you have a “life-verse?” I have two or three verses that qualify as “life-verses” for me. These verses speak into my heart and soul, and I come...
Tina Turner coined the phrase “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” in 1984 when the song was originally released. The question is particularly relevant for why Christians...
Editor’s note: this post was co-authored by Dr. Jay Richards, IFWE’s visiting scholar, and Dr. Anne Bradley, IFWE’s Vice President of Theological Initiatives. As a Christian, whether you...
Why do people work? This is a question economists constantly try to answer. They refer to it as the “labor-leisure tradeoff.” Unfortunately, economics over the twentieth century became...
This past weekend we “celebrated” the one-year anniversary of the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar panel company. When I say celebrate, it is bittersweet. Solyndra should have never...
We have been discussing market-generated profit and the difference between wealth accumulation and political power. These issues raise questions of fairness in the minds of most people. How...
As we discussed last week, the exercise of private power is much different and more limited than public power. In spite of their riches, the wealthy are quite...
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