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January 2017

January 04, 2017

Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Prosperity

By Joseph Sunde “The mundane progress driven by ordinary economic and social processes in a...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Are Christianity and Communism Mutually Exclusive?

By Sarah Stanley Did Pope Francis just publicly endorse Communism? Recent comments have prompted many to...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Do We Simply Want to End Poverty, or Do We Want Humans to Flourish?

By Elise Hilton People of good will wish to end poverty. No one who lives...

September 07, 2016

Spiritual Change in the Great Enrichment

By Joseph Sunde In Dierdre McCloskey’s latest book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

What Is the Meaning of Work?

By Caroline Roberts Working comprises the bulk of most people’s adult lives. Unfortunately, many people...

July 12, 2016

McDonald’s as Social Enterprise: Capitalism’s Community Center?

By Joseph Sunde We live, work, and consume within an increasingly grand, globalized economy. Yet...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Gospel as Oasis: Bringing Economic Flourishing to Urban Deserts

By Joseph Sunde “The Bible has a rich desert theology…He will cause rivers to flow,...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Why Cultural Capital Is Necessary for Economic Flourishing

By Joseph Sunde Western activists and foreign aid experts often pretend as though material redistribution is...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

The Moral and Economic Poverty of the Lottery

By Jordan Ballor The nationwide furor has died down a bit after the $1.586 billion Powerball...

February 03, 2016

Gospel as Oasis: Bringing Economic Flourishing to Urban Deserts

By Joseph Sunde “The Bible has a rich desert theology…He will cause rivers to flow,...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

Africans Raise Awareness to Aid Frozen Norwegians

By Joe Carter “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, first released in 1984 as part of Band...

December 10, 2015

The Worst Christmas Song Ever

By Jordan Ballor At this point in the holiday season, whether we like it or...

December 02, 2015

Why Being Poor Is Too Expensive

By Joe Carter In the critically acclaimed, though rarely seen, movie Killer of Sheep (1978) there’s a...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

How Religion is Redistributing the World’s Wealth

By Joe Carter Dramatic religious shifts over the next few decades will change the distribution...

November 05, 2015

There is No Such Thing as ‘The Poor’

By Victor Claar With the recent news that Angus Deaton of Princeton University had won...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

6 Quotes: Angus Deaton on Poverty

By Joe Carter Last week, Princeton economist Angus Deaton won the Nobel prize in economic sciences for...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Show Me the Way to Poverty

By Dylan Pahman In a recent speech in Bolivia, Pope Francis voiced his indictment of what...

September 24, 2015

VIDEO: What Causes the Poverty Of Nations?

The Acton Institute recently had the privilege of hosting theologian Wayne Grudem and economist Barry Asmus,...

September 11, 2015

‘Crucified Love’ — The Human Side of the Greek Crisis

By Dylan Pahman In Thessaloniki, Greece, Fr. Eleftherios pulls down from the wall behind him...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

‘Need Is Universal’: Entrepreneurship and Faith

By Elise Hilton Do you recognize the name Jessica Jackley? What about Kiva? Jackley is the...

August 26, 2015

Is There a Case for Virtue and Economic Growth?

By James V. Schall Bernard de Mandeville (1670–1733) famously (or infamously) suggested that the cause of...

August 24, 2015

3 Things I Wish Pope Francis Knew About A Free Economy

By Joe Carter Pope Francis has said that he’s generally “allergic” to financial matters. Yet...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Pope Francis and the Idea of Christian Poverty

By Oskari Juurikkala To provide a synthesis of Pope Francis’s thinking on the economy is both...