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Calmly Considered: Economics, the New Testament, and the 21st Century (in podcast & videocast)

Jul 13, 2021

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in Calmly Considered Podcast Video, Capitalism and Markets, Christian Life, Economics, History, Theology

This is the first installment of a once-monthly series called Calmly Considered, in which Allan Bevere and I will be discussing topics related to faith and economics. In this episode, we discuss Peter Oakes' Empire, Economics, and the New Testament. We barely scratch the surface but hopefully some meaningful dialog.

Confederate Monuments Are A Rewrite of History, Not A Remembrance

Jun 20, 2020

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in Current Affairs, History, Politics, Race

Confederate monuments were the product of a campaign to rewrite history, not to preserve it. There were few Confederate monuments thirty years after the Civil War ended in 1865. The placement of monuments came in two waves, the first much larger than the second. One wave began at the turn of the last century, and…

The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We’re All Dead – Book Review

Nov 6, 2019

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in Books, Culture, Economics, History, Theology

The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We're All Dead (Quotes are from the e-book version.) Is economics value-free? Can it be? In the nineteenth century, economics emerged alongside other social sciences, aspiring to apply the scientific method to study human behavior. Economists distinguish positive and normative economics – positive being descriptive and normative being…

Were Slaves Immigrants?

Mar 9, 2017

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in Demography, History, Immigration, Politics, Sociology

Were Slaves Immigrants? Yes. If that answer troubles you, please hear me out. This week, Ben Carson touched off a firestorm when he referred to slaves as immigrants. (Barak Obama has done the same several times.) The uproar has been that equating slavery and immigration minimizes the horrors of slavery. I have engaged in several…

The Future of the American Dream

Dec 12, 2016

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in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Generations, History, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income

For most Americans today, there has been a presumption that our children's lives will be more prosperous than ours. The American Dream, whatever particularities might include, has always included this assumption. It is virtually a social contract. Is the idea that most of our children will have a more prosperous life than we did really…

Minimum Wage, Nativism, and the Illiberal Roots of Progressivism

Dec 11, 2015

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in Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Wealth and Income

Virginia Postrel has an interesting article at Bloomberg, "Progressive and Racist. Woodrow Wilson Wasn't Alone," a book review of Thomas Lenoard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Here are a few key quotes: The progressives believed, first and foremost, in the importance of science and scientific experts in guiding the…

How GDP shares have shifted across the world since 1000 AD

Sep 28, 2015

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in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Great Divergence, History, International Affairs, Trends: Economic, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Business Insider: How GDP shares have shifted across the world since 1000 AD Interesting graph.

The US really has 11 separate ‘nations’

Aug 4, 2015

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in Culture, History, Sociology

Business Insider: This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures "In his fourth book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US. "The country has been arguing about a lot of fundamental…