Archive for Jean A. Briggs
Book Review: Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics by Robert H. Nelson
Rowman & Littlefield, 8705 Bollman Place, Savage, MD 20763 • 1991 • 378 pages • $24.95 cloth God was never dead, as Nietzsche once proclaimed. He was simply recast as a concept and called Efficiency; the role of priest was assumed by economists. That is only one of the insights in this fascinating new book [...]
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
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Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
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JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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