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The Development of Economics

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What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization? By John D. Mueller Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007 The Intercollegiate Studies and Cato Institutes deserve our thanks for this conference posing the question, "What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization?" But I think we must start with a prior question: Isn't "culture of enterprise" really an oxymoron? [Read More]

The Economics of Loving Your Neighbor Remarks at the Princeton panel discussion on Poverty, Social Responsibility, and Equality By John D. Mueller Posted: Monday, March 6, 2006 I�d like, first, to explain why modern economic theory has difficulty describing our topic; second, try to outline what �loving your neighbor as yourself� means in economic terms and the basic principles for doing so at the personal and political levels; and finally, to suggest how America can meet its biggest economic challenge in coming decades: to avoid repeating Europe�s mistakes, reflected in falling fertility and rising unemployment, as the result of misunderstanding those principles. [Read More]

Jacques Rueff: Political Economist for the 21st Century? By John D. Mueller Posted: Friday, January 28, 2000 Jacques Rueff was the "rightest" political economist of the 20th century. Rueff was both a theorist and a successful practitioner of economic policy, who gave the earliest accurate diagnosis of the two biggest economic policy problems of the 20th Century: unemployment and inflation. He used that diagnosis to engineer several successful reforms of national economic policy, and his analysis is just as valid today as when developed in the 1920s. Rueff also contributed to the philosophy of the "social market economy" and of the European Union. He succeeded in explaining the critical link between economics as a science and economic policy as a branch of moral or political philosophy, the importance of which is increasingly evident in economic policy debates. [Read More]

Nobel Prize Winner Robert A. Mundell: An Appreciation By John D. Mueller Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 In October 1999, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert A. Mundell. The Nobel Committee cited Mundell "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas." It may seem that the Nobel announcement, and press articles and editorials describing the award, have honored Mundell "far above our poor power to add or detract." Nevertheless, I'd like to put in my two cents, not only to acknowledge an intellectual debt, but also because I'm not sure that even his closest friends have succeeded in conveying exactly why Mundell is regarded as a great economist, even by those who have disagreed with him. [Read More]


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Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

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Religion and the Media

Michael Cromartie

Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.

American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.