RSSEntries Tagged as 'Humane economics'
Lessons from the Bear Stearns Crisis
Here’s an important post from Georgetown professor Patrick Deneen. He draws out some of the moral lessons to be learned from this latest financial fiasco.
When will we learn that bigger is not always better? Bigness is killing us.
HT: Rod Dreher
Meats of Woe
Industrial and farming are two words that should never be in the same sentence except by way of contrast. Kinda like the words industrial and ecclesiastical. Mega-churches with cheap salvation. Mega-meats with cheap chicken. Everyone once in a while a news story offers a warning about the dangers, even the sins, [...]
Gasoline and economics
Gas prices are killing my family budget. Maybe the government could help by giving a little less help?
Read this article at Human Events by Terry Easton.
Roepke in Geneva: Revidivus W.H. Chellis
Roepke in Geneva: Revidivus
Roepke brought the wisdom of his humane economics to Geneva. History is repeating itself as Roepke disciple/scholar Dr. Ralph Ancil toils amidst the hallowed halls of Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa.
Readers will be aware that Geneva College is the denominational college of the RPCNA. Although Dr. Ancil is not [...]
Roepke and the Human Economy
Roepke and the Human Economy
W.H. Chellis
Since we are talking economics here at De Regno, I must admit a prejudice. I have never been a fan of the “dismal science.” Yet, not all economists are made equal. Among 20th Century economists, the German born Wilhelm Roepke (1899-1966) has no peer (at least from [...]
Small is Still Beautiful, Pt. 2: “Economics and th…
Small is Still Beautiful, Pt. 2: “Economics and the Soul”
Charles Brown
This section of the book begins by counting the real cost of free trade. Conventional economists consider global free trade to be good—invariably and indisputably. Critics of this sacred dogma are condemned as “protectionists”. We live in a climate today where no one questions the [...]
A local currency for a local economyCharles Brown…
A local currency for a local economy
Charles Brown
Since we’ve been talking about Schumacher recently, I had to pass along this link to a practical Schumacherian idea: BerkShares in the Berkshires.
HT: Rod Dreher
Crunchy Con in Indy
Crunchy Con in Indy
Charles Brown
Readers of this blog need to familiarize themselves with the work of Rod Dreher, an editor with the Dallas Morning News and a very good blogger. His 2006 book, Crunchy Cons, is must reading.
Anyway, for those who are interested in meeting him in person, he’ll be speaking at a conference in [...]
Small is Still Beautiful, Pt. 1
Small is Still Beautiful, Pt. 1
Charles Brown
The book, Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered, was recommended to the readers of this blog not long ago. It’s my intent to provide a review of each of its five sections. The author, Joseph Pearce, builds off of the work of E. F. Schumacher, who [...]
Small is Still BeautifulW.H. ChellisThere are t…
Small is Still Beautiful
W.H. Chellis
There are times when the Reformed Presbyterian Testimony is down right beautiful. In chapter 4.11 it wisely declares, “The Scriptures teach that everything belongs to God; that the authority and power to obtain and use goods are given by God; and that men are to seek God’s glory in the use [...]