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Bastiat: Christian Apostle of the Market - Dr. Todd Flanders $0.99
Frederic Bastiat was one of the nineteenth-century’s most prominent and prolific defenders of the free market. Fewer people know that Bastiat also reflected deeply on religious questions. This lecture introduces Bastiat’s economic and religious thought, underlining the connections between the two.
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Corruption - Dr. Alex Chafuen $0.99
Corruption is one of the primary problems afflicting the developing world as well as parts of the developed world. This lecture explores the moral and economic causes of corruption, its effects, and outlines possible solutions.
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School Choice and Private Education - Dr. Nelson Kloosterman $0.99
"Private education and school choice" is a combination whose basis and benefits need to be clarified and championed, now more than ever before. This lecture seeks to provide a perspective, including tools and resources, for doing that work in a way that is persuasive and winsome.
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Social and Economic Context of the New Testament ('11) - Dr. Stephen Grabill $0.99
New research on the economic context of Jesus’ teaching on wealth and exchange points to the need to take into account the nature and extent of market arrangements in first-century Roman Palestine. This lecture shows that in the Gospels we find Jesus recognizing a growing role for market exchange and a legitimate pursuit of economic gain through risk-taking alongside of the need for the practice of general reciprocity.
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Competing Visions of Community - Michael Matheson Miller $0.99
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Medieval Economics: The Untold Story - Dr. Alex Chafuen $0.99
The Middle Ages were a period of enormous cultural growth in the West, including its appreciation of key economic concepts. This lecture examines the economic thought of two medieval theologians, Bernandino of Sienna and Antonio of Florence, whose work broke new ground in economic science, especially when it came to ideas about prices, value, and the moral benefits of entrepreneurship.
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The Economics and Culture of Population Decline - John Lunn $0.99
Population growth and decline are controversial subjects, partly on moral grounds but also because of their economic implications. This lecture explores the links between demography, economic growth, and economic decline and brings to bear the insights of Christian morality upon these questions.
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Envy and the Search for Fairness in Our Economic Relationships ('11) - Dr. Victor Claar $0.99
In a free-market system, participants are free to pursue exchanges that lead to their mutual benefit. Yet market economies do not lead to equal outcomes, even though the same rules apply to all participants. Using St. Thomas Aquinas's definition of envy as a starting point, and drawing both biblical examples and the most up-to-date research, this course critically examines the potentially corrosive role that envy may play in our relationships in a market economy, and critiques the idea of equality of economic outcomes from a moral and anthropological perspective.
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Christian Poverty in the Age of Prosperity ('11) - Rev. Robert A. Sirico $0.99
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Centralization and Civil Society - Dr. John Bolt $0.99
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Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity and Capitalism - Kishore Jayabalan $0.99