Tag: household
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Economics at the Jesus Creed: Michael Kruse 8
Installment number eight on economics at Jesus Creed is up today. Today we are looking at whether "family" is a useful metaphor for thinking about economic systems. It is the most common metaphor for the church in Scripture. Join us for some discussion. Economics at the Jesus Creed: Michael Kruse 8.
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Theologians and Economists: Economics Isn’t in the Bible
[Series Index] I’ve recently been reading M. I. Finley’s classic The Ancient Economy. Early in the book, he explains that the Greek oikonomia (meaning “household management” and the word from which we get “economics”) dealt almost exclusively with the politics of managing the household. It had virtually nothing to do with what we would today…
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Theologians & Economists: The Oikonomos?
[Series Index] We begin this post by recounting a story from Starfish and the Spider. The authors relate a story about David Garrison’s (CEO of Netcom … an AOL-type operation) attempt to raise funds from a French venture capital firm in 1995. … There were about thirty people in the room … It was like…