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To Change the World
There is no subject that invokes as much passion in me as that of a Christian’s interaction with culture. I was raised to believe that “God is in the universe business” (thank you, dad), and I spend the bulk of my extra-curricular time exploring ways that men and women of the Christian faith may have ...read this post
“Fidelity: Ethics in Unethical Times” Hits the Shelves
I am very excited to report that the inaugural issue of Fidelity: Ethics in Unethical Times is now available, a hard-hitting journal in the field of cultural and moral thought from the Center for Cultural Leadership. Yours truly (that’s me) has a chapter in the journal entitled Economic Unethics. But don’t let that dissuade you – there ...read this post
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
Only a few of the books I have read and reviewed for this series have been written by people that I suspect are not particularly intelligent. Many have been authored by men who possess very different economic worldviews than mine, and nearly all have drawn some conclusions in the process that are different from my ...read this post
The End of Wall Street
Roger Lowenstein’s When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management is one of the best books I have ever read about the history of modern finance. So, when I saw that Lowenstein had joined the list of authors chiming on the financial crisis of 2008, I was quite excited. Unlike some highly ...read this post
The Most Dangerous Book I have ever Read
I committed to reading and reviewing every single serious book that is written about the 2008 financial crisis over a year ago because I am afraid of history recording lessons from the crisis that are entirely false, and because I am afraid of economists prescribing solutions that are utterly catastrophic. In a sense, my ...read this post
