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Saturday Links
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in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Demography, Ecclesia, Economics, Gender and Sex, Globalization, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, Immigration, International Affairs, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and IncomeI skipped Saturday Links last week due to the holiday weekend. I'm catching up this week. 1. Faith in the Free Market "… Selke, now 36, is part of a vanguard of young Christians who believe that God uses not only the church and formal ministry but every sphere of society, including business and free…
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Household: The Status Game
I wrote about patronage in the previous post. Today I want to look briefly at status and class. Status is a fluid ranking concept allowing movement from one stratum to another. Social class is a more fixed concept that tends to be ascribed to us at birth. In the Roman world of the biblical era,…