Category Archives: Economics

Why Minimum Wage Laws Hurt the Poor

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell The so-called “Fair Minimum Wage Act” (H.R. 1010 or S. 460) would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 over two years, and then progressively each year based on inflation (the consumer price index). … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 7

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Today’s is the seventh and final post in our summary of Jay Wesley Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperCollins, 2009), and it covers Chapter 8, “Are We … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 6

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell This post is the second-to-last in the series, “Christianity and Capitalism,” in which I have been summarizing Jay Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. Chapter 7, “Doesn’t Capitalism … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 4

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Isn’t capitalism based on greed? This is the question answered in chapter 5 of Jay Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. In the movie Wall Street, character Gordon Gekko famously states, “greed is good.” … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 3

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Two weeks ago forchristandculture.com posted my second entry over J. Richards’s book Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (New York: HarperOne, 2009). In that entry I summarized chapter 2, … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 2

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Last week began a seven-part treatment of Jay Richards’s book Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (All material in quotation marks and most of the material in general for … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 1

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell In 2009 HarperCollins published a book by Jay Richards entitled Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. The title is, I assume, purposefully provocative. It certainly catches one’s attention, especially … Continue reading →

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Marriage, Society, and the Created Order

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

*Guest post by Michael Cooper. Michael serves as Assistant to the President at Criswell College where he is also pursuing a degree in Biblical Studies and Languages. In a 2012 New York Times article entitled Strong Marriages and Economies an intriguing point … Continue reading →

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Being Poor & Being Oppressed Are Not Synonymous

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell “Ma and Pa” in the Little House on the Prairie series were poor, but they were not oppressed. No one owed them anything. No one was systematically mistreating them. They settled and cultivated some land, worked … Continue reading →

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Easy Distinction

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

*Posted by Kirk Spencer First the Dodo marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.  There was no “One, … Continue reading →

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