Paganism
Today I’m reading the first chapter to John Hood’s book, The Heroic Enterprise” for Dr. Cordato’s class. The intro to this book contains many references to one of the most important books I’ve ever read, Henry Grady Weaver’s “The Mainspring of Human Progress.” You should read it.Hood was talking about how “corporate social […]
I was on Chris’ or Travis’ site recently when some…
I was on Chris’ or Travis’ site recently when someone maliciously posted a link to an unaffiliated website. This was my response:
The web site offered is www.thenewliberator.com and it is a site devoted to something called liberation theology. Might seem foreign to many here in SPEL world, but it is a movement with some […]
Simplicity
One of my goals for this blog, and my life, is to reconcile the Christian Ethic with Classical Economics. Tonight I was reading from Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline which has nothing to do with spanking at all. It is a modern exploration of what have classically been referred to as the […]
Munich
I posted the following in response to a discussion athttp://www.cafehayek.comabout Steven Spielburg’s movie Munich
Rule of law requires a fair trial by a jury of peers, something Americans are becoming less and less aquainted with these days. My curiosity has been aroused enough to want to see this movie now.The Zionists (not all Jews are […]
Hayek’s Ethics
I read an essay “The Principles of a Liberal Social Order” by Hayek this week, and I have a few musings. I dare not call them thoughts, for they are not fully developed enough for that yet.Economists try to stay away from Theology. Too bad, because Theologians tend to stay away from economics […]
Protection
Issues keep coming back to protection. Protection from other governments, from risk, from swindlers.Always there is a shift away from personal responsibility. Fear fuels this shift, and is utilized by the government to exploint its citizens. The wolf must protet its sheep from other wolves.The Christian Ethic demands personal responsibility and each […]
Wages
Why aren’t more economists entrepreneurs. Probably because we can’t spell entrepreneur…
But really, it’s a fair question. Perhaps entrepreneurs already get intuitively what economists sit around and philosophize on. Or, perhaps it is beacuse once we’re all done drawing graphs we’re too tired to do anything else. There’s not much of a […]
Virtue vs. Value
I pay a lot of attention to writers’ use of “value.” I prefer “virtue.” Values are economic in nature. Virtues are ethical. All too often, especially amongst conservatives, but liberals have adopted the language as well, the term vales is used in refference to ethics. Statists love values. These […]
The Economics of Catan
My dad got me a game for Christmas, the Settlers of Catan. If you haven’t played this yet, find a geeky friend and its likely he’s got it. For those of you in the know, I have drawn some significant lessons from the game.First is the robber. I have renamed mine the […]