Archive for Ken S. Ewert
The Cross and the Rain Forest: A Critique of Radical Green Spirituality by Robert Whelan, Joseph Kirwan, and Paul Haffner
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty & William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company • 1996 • 163 pages • $16.00 paperback Ken Ewert is the editor of U-TURN, a quarterly Biblical worldview publication. Strident, apocalyptic environmentalist rhetoric has become a regular feature of American life. Vice President Al Gore intones that, “We must [...]
1Oct1997 | Ken S. Ewert | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Faith & Credit: The World Bank’s Secular Empire by Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli
Westview Press • 1994 • 282 pages • $63.50 cloth; $16.95 paperback Mr. Ewert is the editor of U-Turn, a quarterly publication addressing theological, political, economic, and social issues from a biblical perspective. Someone once put forth the aphorism: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Presumably if you’re against something and I’m against [...]
1Feb1997 | Ken S. Ewert | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World Edited by Doug Bandow and Ian Vasquez
Cato Institute • 1994 • 362 pages • $15.95 paperback There is a biblical proverb that says: "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." I have often thought of this verse in relation to the misery that political policies such as rent control or minimum wages have caused people- especially the poorest of people. [...]
1Apr1995 | Ken S. Ewert | 0 comments | ContinuedThe International Monetary Fund
It was on July 1, 1944, just three weeks after the Allies had landed in Normandy, that the most significant intergovernmental conference of the century began. The conference took place at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and it represented, in the main, the thinking of two individuals, Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes. Both of [...]
1Apr1989 | Ken S. Ewert | 1 comment | ContinuedMoral Criticisms of the Market
Mr. Ewert, a graduate of Grove City College, is working on a master’s degree in public policy at CBN University. According to an author writing in a recent issue of The Nation magazine, “The religious Left is the only Left we’ve got.” An overstatement? Perhaps. However, it points to an interesting fact, namely that while [...]
1Mar1989 | Ken S. Ewert | 1 comment | ContinuedThe International Debt Crisis
Once there was a man with a large sum of money. He decided to lend a considerable portion of it to a man from a faraway country who offered him a high rate of return. But the foreigner wasted some of the money in riotous living, he was careless and allowed some of the money [...]
1Sep1988 | Ken S. Ewert | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Trade Deficit
Mr. Ewert is a recent graduate of Grove City College and is now working on a master’s degree in public policy at CBN University. Unsound economic ideas, like cats, seem to have several lives. Errors which have been laid to rest in past decades and even centuries are often resurrected, and once dusted off and [...]
1Nov1987 | Ken S. Ewert | 4 comments | Continued-
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