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Noodles in Nigeria: When private business breeds economic development

April 30, 2019 • by Joseph Sunde

Noodles in Nigeria: When private business breeds economic development

In the West’s various efforts to alleviate global poverty, we continue to see the promotion of top-down solutions at the expense of bottom-up enterprises and institutions. Yet despite the setbacks and slowdowns caused by various governments and foreign aid, the entrepreneurs and workers on the ground aren’t sitting idly by. Continue Reading...

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April 30, 2019

The Federal Reserve as lender of last resort

Note: This is post #121 in a weekly video series on basic economics. If you heard a rumor that your bank was insolvent, asks economist Alex Tabarrok, what would you do? Continue Reading...

April 29, 2019

Grand Rapids doesn’t need publicly funded hotels

Grand Rapids, home to the Acton Institute headquarters, is frequently ranked as one of the best cities to live in America. In 2018, Headlight Data ranked the city the seventh fastest growing economy in the U.S., Continue Reading...

April 29, 2019

No, George Will. Joe Biden’s program is not ‘normalcy’

Reading George Will’s latest article in National Review online Praising the normalcy of the former Vice President Joe Biden, I couldn’t help whispering to myself: What is properly normal about Uncle Joe? Continue Reading...

April 29, 2019

What does Spain’s 2019 general election mean for Christians?

Spain held a general election on Sunday, which saw Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party rout the center-right opposition. “For liberty-minded Christians, this was the worst possible outcome,” writes Ángel Manuel García Carmona in a detailed analysis of the process, and outcome, of the election posted today at Religion & Liberty Transatlantic. Continue Reading...

April 29, 2019

Superheroes and subsidiarity

On the heels of a record-smashing opening weekend for Avengers: Endgame, it seems appropriate to broach the subject of superheroes and subsidiarity, and specifically an intriguing lesson about subsidiarity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Continue Reading...

April 29, 2019

David Bentley Hart’s sophomoric defense of socialism

“Whatever you think of the socialism discussion,” says economist Tyler Cowen, “should a Christian have and indeed display so much contempt for other human beings?” Cowen is referring, of course, to the latest sneering diatribe in the New York Times by theologian David Bentley Hart. Continue Reading...

April 26, 2019

Unitarian leftist: Socialism is not ethically superior to capitalism

Socialism has made a resurgence in this generation, not least because of its deceptive moral appeal. Secular Millennials join liberal priests, pastors, and rabbis in saying that profits corrupt, unequal outcomes are immoral – and perhaps even Jesus would have been a socialist. Continue Reading...

April 26, 2019

Video: Mustafa Akyol on the prospects for liberty in the Islamic world

The 2019 Acton Lecture Series continued on April 25th in the Mark Murray Auditorium at the Acton Building, where we welcomed Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular lecturer at Acton University to share his thoughts on the prospects for liberty in the Islamic world. Continue Reading...

April 26, 2019

For pro-life poverty fighters, political objectives and policies are different things

If you’re a pro-life conservative Christian you’ll eventually hear someone on the left assert that you can’t be consistently pro-life if you don’t support government policies to reduce poverty. If we truly cared about life in and out of the womb, they say, you’d support government intervention not only to ban abortion but to make abortion unnecessary. Continue Reading...

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Noodles in Nigeria: When private business breeds economic development

Noodles in Nigeria: When private business breeds economic development

Latest Posts

The Federal Reserve as lender of last resort

Grand Rapids doesn’t need publicly funded hotels

No, George Will. Joe Biden’s program is not ‘normalcy’

What does Spain’s 2019 general election mean for Christians?

Superheroes and subsidiarity

David Bentley Hart’s sophomoric defense of socialism

Unitarian leftist: Socialism is not ethically superior to capitalism

Video: Mustafa Akyol on the prospects for liberty in the Islamic world

For pro-life poverty fighters, political objectives and policies are different things

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