If the poor will always be with us, as Jesus says in Mark 4:7, will our poverty relief efforts do any good? How are Christians to think through...
This valuable volume provides solutions to poverty that really work…it contains a wide range of practical and biblical insights from the accumulated wisdom of experts who have spent...
It is not uncommon for many people to think there is an unbridgeable chasm between Christianity and economics. There are unbelievers who are aghast at the notion that...
America’s unofficial poverty program for most of the nation’s history could be called, in a word, “liberty.” In spite of a horrendous civil war, half a dozen economic...
If I make a profit off something I sold, how is it that the person I sold the item to is also better off? Shouldn’t one of us...
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...
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...
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...
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