August 28, 2019
August 13, 2019
Drucker on the church that puts economics in perspective
This is the second in a series of essays on Peter Drucker’s early works.
In The End of Economic Man, Peter Drucker was impressed (not pleased, but impressed) with the ability of fascists and communists to gain the support of millions of people by offering an alternative to economic status within a society. Continue Reading...
August 08, 2019
A healthy conservative nationalism? Not without classical liberalism
August 05, 2019
Letter from China: Civic virtue without freedom?
June 28, 2019
New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 22, No. 1)
The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality has been published both in print and online here.
Scholarly contributions range from a study of joy and labor in Ecclesiastes, virtue and vice in the American founding, whistleblowing, and the economics and ethics of education, including a Controversy debating the merits and demerits of the tenure system. Continue Reading...
June 27, 2019
Why ‘young hearts’ tend toward socialism (and how to win them back)
The common clichés about “kid socialists” are now well-embedded in the American imagination. The path is well-worn: young person attends college, reads Karl Marx in Sociology 101, buys Che Guevara t-shirt, attends progressive protests, supports socialistic candidates, and, eventually, grows up. Continue Reading...
June 12, 2019
Sympathy as social virtue: Adam Smith’s solution for disruption
June 10, 2019
Moral and religious people created by God not the state
June 07, 2019
The economic virtues of ‘maker culture’
May 31, 2019