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The Number One Failure of Modern Economics

August 02, 2011 • by Elise Daniel

The Number One Failure of Modern Economics

In a recent Reuters opinion column, Mark Thoma faults academic economists for their failure to predict the housing crash. He says their failure can be attributed to the disconnect between academia and economic forecasters. Continue Reading...

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August 02, 2011

Immigration, the Free Market, and the Importance of Human Dignity

Immigration is never a light topic to discuss, and even the proposition of a solution to the effects caused by immigration might well be considered radical. The idea of a harmonious multicultural society is idealistic, but in reality, is very difficult to achieve. Continue Reading...

August 02, 2011

What Ireland Has Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

George Weigel writes on National Review Online, “something quite remarkable has become unmistakably clear across the Atlantic: Ireland—where the constitution begins, ‘In the name of the Most Holy Trinity’—has become the most stridently anti-Catholic country in the Western world.” Continue Reading...

August 02, 2011

Evaluating Our Values: A Christian Response to the Debt Crisis

Over at ThinkChristian, I take the opportunity to sketch “what a comprehensive Christian response to the crisis of public and private debt might look like.” I focus “on five main areas: the individual, familial, ecclesial, economic, and political.” Continue Reading...

August 01, 2011

What the Common Good Isn’t

It looks like Congress will vote later today or this evening to raise the debt ceiling and avert a possible default by the United States Treasury. How the debt ceiling compromise will fair when measured against Acton’s Principles for Budget Reform it is too early to know, but one thing is certain: if the deal contains a single budget cut for even the most ineffective of social programs, we’ll hear screams of protest from Jim Wallis and his Circle of Protection. Continue Reading...

August 01, 2011

The Privilege of Responsibility

This past weekend in Chicago a luncheon was held for the kickoff of college football’s Big 10 Conference. Michigan State University quarterback, Kirk Cousins, was featured at the conference, giving an honorary talk on his journey through four years in college football, and the important lessons he took away from his experience. Continue Reading...

July 29, 2011

Call of the Entrepreneur Continues to Air on BIZ TV

Acton Institute would like to invite you to tune into BIZ TV for showings of The Call of the Entrepreneur, the first documentary released by ActonMedia. BIZ TV will be presenting the film today (July 29) at 5:00 pm EST, tomorrow (July 30) at 8:00 am EST, and Sunday, July 31 at 7:00 pm EST. Continue Reading...

July 29, 2011

John Locke and a Chinese Investiture Controversy

Acton’s Director of Research Dr. Samuel Gregg has two new pieces today, in Public Discourse and The American Spectator. The first is a response to Greg Forster’s “Taking Locke Seriously” on June 27 in First Things. Continue Reading...

July 29, 2011

Circle of Protection Ads: A Telling Distortion of Scripture

The Circle of Protection radio advertisements being broadcast in three states right now make their arguments, such as they are, from a quotation of the Bible and a federal poverty program that might be cut in a debt ceiling compromise. Continue Reading...

July 29, 2011

The Patriot Act and the Threat to the Rule of Law

Three of the Acton Institute’s core values are dignity of the person, the rule of law and the subsidiary role of government. The Patriot Act, passed in 2001, violates these fundamental principles. Continue Reading...

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The Number One Failure of Modern Economics

The Number One Failure of Modern Economics

Latest Posts

What Ireland Has Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

Evaluating Our Values: A Christian Response to the Debt Crisis

The Privilege of Responsibility

Call of the Entrepreneur Continues to Air on BIZ TV

Circle of Protection Ads: A Telling Distortion of Scripture

The Patriot Act and the Threat to the Rule of Law

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