Tag: private-property rights
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Forced sharing leads to disappointment, bad behavior at church picnic
FortWayne.com: Forced sharing leads to disappointment, bad behavior at church picnic (HT: Victor Claar and his mom) When I was 12 years old, the Youth of First Christian Church had a picnic at Honor Heights Park in Muskogee, Okla. The good ladies of the church brought loads of potato salad, baked beans and coleslaw, but…
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Theologians and Economists: Decentralized Stewardship
[Series Index] We have noted the peculiar cosmology of the Hebrews compared to the Ancient Near East (ANE) cultures. Another peculiarity is the construal of property rights in the Bible, particularly regarding land and labor. The idea of private property rights wasn’t foreign to ANE culture. Records dating back to at least the late third…