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Radio Free Acton: Victor Claar on price gouging and Hurricane Harvey; Upstream on progressive rock; and Mailbag with Rev. Robert Sirico

August 30, 2017 • by Caroline Roberts

Radio Free Acton: Victor Claar on price gouging and Hurricane Harvey; Upstream on progressive rock; and Mailbag with Rev. Robert Sirico

This week’s edition of Radio Free Acton features a chat with economist Victor Claar about the outrage surrounding price gouging and Hurricane Harvey. Is it immoral to ratchet up prices in the face of disasters? Continue Reading...

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August 30, 2017

Thinking about the ethics and economics of ‘price gouging’

A reporter posted a picture on Twitter yesterday that showed a Best Buy in Houston charging $42 for a case of Dasani water. The picture also showed a case of Smartwater for $29, with a sign noting there was a “limited supply.” Continue Reading...

August 30, 2017

Toward an economics of neighborly love

As a child growing up in rural poverty, Tom Nelson was constantly confronted by material lack and the social shame that sometimes comes with it, instilling an acute sense that economics mattered. Continue Reading...

August 30, 2017

How economic enterprise can revitalize rural churches

Churches in America are closing at an alarming rate, with an estimated 3,400 to 4,000 singing their final hymns and closing their doors each year. The majority of these churches are almost certainly in rural areas that are seeing unprecedented declines in population. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2017

Families pay more in taxes than for food, clothing, and housing combined: Study

The necessities of life include food, water, clothing, and shelter … but should the government cost more than all of them put together? A new study has found that politicians extract more in taxes than working families pay for their basic human needs. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2017

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 20, No. 1)

The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 20, no. 1, has been published online and print copies are in the mail. This issue is a special issue on “Morality, Neoclassical Economics, and John Maynard Keynes.” Continue Reading...

August 29, 2017

The balance of industries and creative destruction

Note: This is post #46 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics. Why are price signals and market competition so important to a market economy? When prices accurately signal costs and benefits and markets are competitive, the Invisible Hand ensures that costs are minimized and production is maximized, explains Alex Tabarrok. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2017

Should religious publications accept government funding to promote the EU?

The government of Poland recently funded media outlets that agreed to cover the EU’s international wealth redistribution program, the EU Structural Funds. The fact that one of the recipients was a Catholic weekly raises numerous moral and ethical questions. Continue Reading...

August 28, 2017

No, hurricanes and other natural disasters are not economically beneficial

Hurricanes like Harvey almost always leave two things in their aftermath: broken windows and articles advocating the broken window fallacy. Unfortunately, while we can’t stop hurricanes from occurring we should be able to put an end to bizarre idea that natural disasters that destroy property are beneficial to our economy. Continue Reading...

August 25, 2017

Western values can defeat Russian propaganda and Eastern cronyism: Neamtu

The fall of the Berlin Wall remains the greatest symbolic victory of freedom over tyranny in the modern age. Yet the triumph of liberty finds itself threatened by corruption and a propaganda war wrapped up in religious sentiment, according to a prominent Eastern European commentator. Continue Reading...

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Radio Free Acton: Victor Claar on price gouging and Hurricane Harvey; Upstream on progressive rock; and Mailbag with Rev. Robert Sirico

Radio Free Acton: Victor Claar on price gouging and Hurricane Harvey; Upstream on progressive rock; and Mailbag with Rev. Robert Sirico

Latest Posts

Thinking about the ethics and economics of ‘price gouging’

Toward an economics of neighborly love

How economic enterprise can revitalize rural churches

Families pay more in taxes than for food, clothing, and housing combined: Study

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 20, No. 1)

The balance of industries and creative destruction

Should religious publications accept government funding to promote the EU?

No, hurricanes and other natural disasters are not economically beneficial

Western values can defeat Russian propaganda and Eastern cronyism: Neamtu

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