Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
November 16, 2017
The current era of globalization, with all its opportunities and challenges, is not the first time that the Church has had to grapple with economic changes on a global scale. In the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, Catholic theologians explored the moral, political, and economic implications of expanding commerce and trade routes across the globe – to India, China, Africa, and, of course, the New World.
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November 15, 2017
“Occupational licensing laws harm workers, as well as consumers who purchase services from professionals that require licensure,” says Tyler Bonin in this week’s Acton Commentary. “This harm is disproportionately placed on economically disadvantaged populations.
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November 14, 2017
Note: This is post #56 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics.
Why do wages in America differ greatly among workers? One reason, says economist Alex Tabarrok, includes differences in human capital—tools of the mind.
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November 13, 2017
What does the Bible say about wealth creation? Can wealth creation lead to Biblical human flourishing?
Earlier this year two evangelical groups, the Lausanne Movement and BAM Global, released a paper exploring biblical perspectives on the theme of ‘wealth creation for holistic transformation’ to address these questions and more.
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November 10, 2017
Today is Veterans Day, a U.S. public holiday set aside to thank and honor all those who served honorably in the armed forces both in wartime or peacetime.
Here are five facts you should know about veterans in the United States:
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November 09, 2017
Should Christians rethink the merits of free markets? Last night The King’s College hosted a debate on that question between
First Things editor R.R. Reno and Acton Institute president and co-founder Rev.
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November 08, 2017
“Conservatives who believe that free markets are the most optimal of imperfect economic systems thus need to rethink about how to integrate their case for markets into the broader conservative agenda,” says Samuel Gregg in this week’s Acton Commentary.
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November 08, 2017
This week is the hundredth anniversary of the second Russian Revolution, one of the most transformative political events in the history of the modern world. Here are five facts you should know about the world’s most destructive revolution:
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November 07, 2017
Over the past year there has been an ongoing debate carried out online in outlets like the Acton Institute blog, Public Discourse, and
First Things magazine over the legitimacy of free markets.
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November 07, 2017
Note: This is post #55 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics.
Do you learn about things, because the learning itself matters, or is education all about the signal you—and your degree—send out to the world?
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