How do you legislate good behavior? Is it possible to legislate in such a way that people are incentivized to serve others instead of themselves? These are just...
Economists at the Brookings Institute bring the happy news that the United Nations’ goal to reduce the number of people in extreme poverty by fifty percent by 2015...
We have all seen the various stereotypes of the Wall Street tycoon grinding the little guy under his thousand-dollar dress shoes on his way to the top. In...
Is envy is on the upswing in America? Echoing what Mike Rowe said recently about wealth envy, American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks pushes further to say wealth...
As I mentioned in a previous post, income inequality per se is not a harbinger of poverty. But why? Economist David Henderson explains it this way: How does...
I am a fully grown man and I’m not ashamed to admit I went to see The Lego Movie with two other fully independent adults. And we had...
What comes to your mind when you think of economics? Do you think of charts, graphs, and mathematical models, or general principles of human behavior? Can our understanding...
Next month the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics is launching its first edited volume, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty. I author a...
How do well-enforced property rights affect the poor? In a video produced by the International Justice Mission, one Ugandan woman explains, In this part of the country, land...
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