Caroline Roberts is a managing editor at the Acton Institute and produces Acton's weekly podcast, Acton Line.
Posts by Caroline Roberts
January 31, 2018
On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Caroline Roberts talks to Joe Carter, Senior Editor at Acton, about minimum wage and the debate surrounding the “Fight for $15.” Then on the Econ Quiz segment, Dave Hebert, Professor of Economics at Aquinas College, speaks with John Couretas, Executive Editor and Director of Communications at Acton, about the stock market boom (segment was recorded before the Jan.
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January 25, 2018
Free-market economists such as Wilhelm Röpke and Walter Eucken made much headway during the first half of the twentieth century, and to some, are household names. There is, however, another significant free-market advocate with whom most may be less familiar.
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January 17, 2018
On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Trey Dimsdale, Director of Program Outreach at Acton, speaks with Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, about her upcoming Acton Lecture Series talk on family breakdown and the economy.
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January 10, 2018
On this week’s episode of Radio Free Acton, Caroline Roberts speaks with Liz Forkin Bohannon, CEO and Founder of Sseko Designs, on wealth creation and effective poverty alleviation. Then, on the Upstream segment, Bruce Edward Walker hosts a roundtable discussion with Acton staffers on Godless, a new Western show by Netflix.
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January 04, 2018
Abraham Kuyper, who served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905, was also a journalist and theologian. Kuyper wrote expansively on public theology in an effort to engage culture through the lens of a Christian worldview, covering topics such as common grace, the kingship of Christ, and the roles of the church and family.
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December 20, 2017
At the top of the Catholic hierarchy, Capitalism has been abandoned. This criticism of free markets, and even profit in general, have caused others within the Catholic Church to become concerned.
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December 20, 2017
On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Fr. Ben Johnson, Senior Editor at the Acton Institute, speaks with Alex Chafuen, President of the Atlas Network and as of January 1, 2018, Acton’s new Managing Director: International, on his past and upcoming work with Acton.
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December 13, 2017
On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Dylan Pahman, Research Fellow and Managing Editor of the
Journal of Markets and Morality at Acton, speaks with Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at Acton, about the prolific economists Wilhelm Röpke and John Maynard Keynes, who they are, what they did, and why we should care.
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December 06, 2017
On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Sarah Stanley, Managing Editor at the Acton Institute, speaks with Mac Tristan, Chief of Police in Coppell, Texas, on the topic of servant leadership: what is it, how has Mac found it helpful in his line of work, and why it is valuable for leaders in business too.
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December 04, 2017
In the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, Catholic theologians, many of whom were members of the Society of Jesus, studied the intersection of morality and expanding commerce. Jesuits including Juan de Mariana, Luis de Molina, and Leonardus Lessius explored the ethics of money, economics, and trade.
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