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Tea Partiers decry government intrusions into our lives, for example in the controversial health care law, and the imposition of high taxes. Wall Street Occupiers are outraged at the high income and the billions of dollars in government bailouts bestowed on the financial system. While ordinary people continue to endure near double digit unemployment and growing health care costs, and worry about austerity measures forced upon us by the large fiscal deficits and the big national debt. Economists, our presumed experts, are at loggerheads in trying to come up with a possible solution to the general crisis affecting the economies of the U.S. and those of Europe. Meanwhile the possible solutions to all those problems remain ignored and unread within the pages of the "100 theses for the Reformation of Economics." "The List" is a booklet containing only a listing of the 100-Theses plus an 'overview' of each of the 18 sections in which the theses are grouped. Whether you sympathize with the Tea Party, or with Occupy Wall Street, or are suffering with the unemployment situation, or are simply fed-up with the gridlock in Washington DC, you owe it to yourself and to your children to read the 100-Theses, and to speak up.
Even though the Great Recession officially ended more than two years ago, in 2009, most developed economies are still suffering from near double-digits unemployment. Millions of people in the U.S. and Europe have lost their houses and their jobs. Who is blame for such a tragedy? As John Skidelsky, Keynes's biographer, puts it, it is not the bankers, the credit-rating agencies, the central bankers, the regulators, or government, to be blamed, but a failure of ideas: "the present crisis is, to a large extent, the fruits of the intellectual failure of the economic profession." They are quite right. All the suffering and lives ruined by the present and past crises have been caused by erroneous economic ideas. It was erroneous beliefs that prompted our political leaders to enact all the policies that pushed our federal government into a dangerous level of fiscal deficit and fiscal debt. Erroneous ideas compelled government to get deeper into debt in order to bail out Wall Street and the big banks, while failing to help homeowners facing foreclosure.. Erroneous beliefs are preventing the government from enacting necessary measures to help the economy recover. Erroneous economic beliefs are responsible for the increase in the poverty rate and the decline of the middle class. In fact, behind any social and economic problem you can think of, there is a plethora of erroneous beliefs inflicted on us by the supposed experts on the matter, the professional economists. The only way to really solve the serious problems affecting the U.S. and the world today is nothing short of a complete reformation of the economic discipline. That is the purpose of the 100 theses presented here. You may not agree with some of these theses but, at the very least, your assumptions will be challenged. You can be assured that your view of the economy, indeed of the world, will never be the same after you have read the 100 theses."
An investigation of the thought, activity and influence of the economist and social reformer Schmoller in the era of Bismarck.
Victor Claar and Robin Klay introduce students to the basic principles of economics and then evaluate the principles and issues as seen from a Christian perspective. This textbook places the economic life in the context of Christian discipleship and stewardship. This text is for use in any course needing a survey of the principles of economics.
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.
This edited collection brings together expertise from around the globe to overview and debate key concepts and concerns in the economics of religion. While the economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics, economists have made and continue to make important contributions to the understanding of religion. There is much scope for economists to continue to make a significant contribution to debates about religion, including its implications for conflict, political economy, public goods, demography, education, finance, trade and economic growth.
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Did Martin Luther wield his hammer on the Wittenberg church door on October 31, 1517? Did he even post the Ninety-five Theses at all? This collection of documents sheds light on the debate surrounding Luther's actions and the timing of his writing and his request for a disputation on the indulgence issue. The primary documents in this book include the theses, their companion sermon ("A Sermon on Indulgence and Grace", 1518), a chronoloical arrangement of letters pertinent to the theses, and selections from Luther's Table Talk that address the Ninety-five Theses. A final section contains Luther's recollections, which offer today's reader the reformer's own views of the Reformation and the Ninety-five Theses.
Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by addressing their original context, historical reception, and ongoing relevance. Lawrence Scaff, Hartmut Lehmann, Philip Gorski, Stephen Kalberg, Martin Riesebrodt, Donald Nielsen, Peter Kivisto, and the editors offer original perspectives that engage Weber's indelible work so as to inform current issues central to sociology, history, religious studies, political science, economics, and cultural studies. Available in several English translations, the Protestant Ethic is listed by the International Sociological Association among the top five "Books of the Century." The Protestant Ethic continues to be a standard assigned reading in undergraduate and graduate courses, spanning a variety of academic disciplines.
Economics can help us understand the evolution and development of religion, from the market penetration of the Reformation to an exploration of today's hot-button issues including evolution and gay marriage. This startlingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity shows that the economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and much to do with understanding the background of today's religious and political divisions. Since religion is a set of organized beliefs, and a church is an organized body of worshippers, it's natural to use a science that seeks to explain the behavior of organizations—economics—to understand the development of organized religion. The Marketplace of Christianity applies the tools of economic theory to illuminate the emergence of Protestantism in the sixteenth century and to examine contemporary religion-influenced issues, including evolution and gay marriage. The Protestant Reformation, the authors argue, can be seen as a successful penetration of a religious market dominated by a monopoly firm—the Catholic Church. The Ninety-five Theses nailed to the church door in Wittenberg by Martin Luther raised the level of competition within Christianity to a breaking point. The Counter-Reformation, the Catholic reaction, continued the competitive process, which came to include "product differentiation" in the form of doctrinal and organizational innovation. Economic theory shows us how Christianity evolved to satisfy the changing demands of consumers—worshippers. The authors of The Marketplace of Christianity avoid value judgments about religion. They take preferences for religion as given and analyze its observable effects on society and the individual. They provide the reader with clear and nontechnical background information on economics and the economics of religion before focusing on the Reformation and its aftermath. Their analysis of contemporary hot-button issues—science vs. religion, liberal vs. conservative, clerical celibacy, women and gay clergy, gay marriage—offers a vivid illustration of the potential of economic analysis to contribute to our understanding of religion.