This episode features another segment from the ACE panel on economic justice from the 2021 ASSA meetings. We start by hearing Enoch Hill’s presentation about the economic justice lessons that can be drawn from the Jubilee prescriptions from the

Daniel Finn on Four Myths Concerning Taxation and Government Spending

Sep 1st, 2021 44m 43s

This episode is the second in our series on economic justice, this time featuring Daniel Finn. We start with a recording of Dan’s presentation from our January panel, in which we asked four scholars to respond to the prompt: “What Does a Christ

John Anderson on Justice in Public Finance

Aug 5th, 2021 56m 41s

In January 2021 at the ASSA meetings the Association of Christian Economists hosted two academic sessions. One of those was a panel of theologians and economists, all tasked with answering the following question: “What does a Christian Vision f

Ngina Chiteji on the Criminal Justice System

Jul 14th, 2021 1h 2m

This episode is an interview of Ngina Chiteji, an associate professor of economics at NYU. She does research on wealth and savings, crime, and inequality. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Black Political Economy, and co-editor of

Rob Tatum on Eschatology and Economic Policy

Feb 10th, 2021 51m 20s

This episode features a conversation with Rob Tatum, an economist that has been doing some interesting writing about theology and economic policy. The paper we discuss in some detail here recently came out in the new Journal of Economics, Theol

ACE Event: The Promise And Limits of Economics

Jan 13th, 2021 59m 51s

On January 9th, the American Enterprise Institute’s Initiative on Faith and Public Life hosted their annual retreat for faculty. This year the theme was a question: "What would a truly humane economy look like in the United States?" The retreat

End of the Year Book Recommendations with Jamin Hübner

Dec 31st, 2020 1h 17m

In this final episode of 2020, we decided to do a retrospective episode about the best recently published books we had read this year. I am joined by Jamin Hübner, a friend, scholar, and voracious reader who has regularly writes book reviews fo

ACE Event: Edd Noell on Smith and the Scholastics on the Morality of Markets

Dec 16th, 2020 34m 34s

This episode features a lecture given by economist and historian Edd Noell titled “Smith and the Scholastic Tradition on Markets and Their Moral Rationale.” This lecture was part of a session on new thinking about Adam Smith jointly sponsored b

ACE Event: Paul Oslington on Adam Smith's Economics of Religion

Dec 2nd, 2020 36m 14s

This week we have a recording of a lecture delivered at the 2020 ASSA meetings in San Diego. At that conference, the association of Christian economists sponsored two sessions, and the one I will highlight here was a series of talks on Adam Smi

Denise Daniels on Christian Higher Education

Nov 18th, 2020 1h

This episode features Denise Daniels from Wheaton college talking about Christian Higher education. The impetus for this conversation was a paper that she published with Caleb Henry and Bradley Jensen Murg in the Journal of Markets and Morality

Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich with Art Carden

Nov 11th, 2020 48m 30s

This episode is a conversation with Art Carden from Samford University. Art is an excellent scholar and a great popularizer of economic ideas. The occasion for our conversation is a new book that he has just published with the great economic hi

Jordan Ballor on Scarcity and Ethics in Theology and Economics

Nov 4th, 2020 55m 32s

This episode features a conversation with Jordan Ballor, a senior research fellow at the Acton Institute. We take a deep dive into the ways that theologians and economists tend to disagree. Our starting point is an essay that Ballor wrote about

Greg Forster on Economics, Theology, and Keynesian Thought

Oct 28th, 2020 1h

In this episode, Steven McMullen interviews Greg Forster about two recent books that he has published. Greg is a political philosopher by training, but his work has spanned history, theology, economics, and political theory. He is the director

A Conversation about the Association of Christian Economists

Oct 21st, 2020 48m 21s

This episode is an introduction to the Association of Christian Economists. We talk about the history of the organization, including some of the big conversations that have animated scholars over the last 40 years, and a bit about what the Asso

Scott Cunningham on the Economics of Prostitution

Oct 14th, 2020 1h 16m

This episode features an interview with Scott Cunningham about markets for prostitution and his book on causal inference.Cunningham is a thoughtful scholar working at the cutting edge of empirical microeconomics. He is a professor of economics

Stephen Smith on China

Oct 7th, 2020 50m 1s

This episode features Stephen Smith from Hope College. Smith talks about the place of China in the global economy, U.S. policy toward China, changes in Chinese governance, and the Chinese church. Smith grew up in Hong Kong and has visited China

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Introducing Faithful Economy

Sep 30th, 2020 3m 41s

In this quick trailer for the podcast, I give you a taste of what we have planned for the show. Check it out, and then move on to our first episode right away.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/faithfuleconomy

Bruce Wydick on Being a Shrewd Samaritan

Sep 30th, 2020 51m 12s

In this episode, Steven McMullen interviews economist Bruce Wydick about his recent book Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving our Global Neighbor (Thomas Nelson, 2019). (https://www.thomasnelson.com/9780785221524/shrewd-sa

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