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The Forgotten Sin of Covetous Envy
Modern rhetoric of income inequality is driven by covetous envy, says Russell Nieli. Caritas, humility, gratitude, and goodwill toward others are a healthy society’s answer to the ancient curses of...
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If You Care About Income Inequality, Then Why Don’t You Support School Reform?
If you really care about income inequality, notes John Goodman, you need only focus on one thing — the inequality of educational opportunity:The topic du jour on the left these days is inequality. But...
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Capital Then and Now
Speaking of Thomas Piketty, here’s a very helpful and revealing interview with Matthew Yglesias, “Thomas Piketty doesn’t hate capitalism: He just wants to fix it.” (HT: PEG)A few highlights with some...
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Video: ‘Fighting Poverty: We’ve Been Doing it All Wrong’
Yahoo! Finance’s Stock Analyst, Kevin Chupka, recently interviewed Rev. Robert Sirico about the “Cure for Income Inequality” and the work of PovertyCure. Chupka begins by stating that “close to half...
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The Moral Value of Economic Growth
In 1820, America’s per capita income averaged $1,980, in today’s dollars. But by 2000, it had increased to $43,000. That economic growth has benefited the rich, of course. But it has also transformed...
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What Matters Most for Social Mobility?
Earlier this year I wrote a series of posts explaining 12 principles that generally drive the thinking of conservative evangelicals when it comes to economics. Number 9 on my list was:Read more on What...
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Christianity, Socialism, and Wealth Creation
Christian churches in the West have been focused on redistribution of income rather than the creation of wealth, says Brian Griffiths in this week’s Acton Commentary.Through much of the post-war period...
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Poverty In America: What’s The Plan To Eradicate It?
Participant in the Doe Fund, New York CityNo one wants to be poor. No one enjoys figuring out how to stretch meals to last just three more days. No parent wants to tell their child they can’t play a...
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The Connection Between Inequality and Poverty Alleviation
“If there is one thing that religious leaders around the world seem to agree on today,” says Acton research associate Dylan Pahman, “it is the evils of income inequality stemming from a globalized...
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Great Britain is Poorer Than Every US State
At the height of power, circa 1922, the British Empire was the largest empire in history, covering one-fifth of the world’s population and almost a quarter of the earth’s total land area. Yet almost...
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Which Inequality? Trends Toward Equality in Lifespans and Education
Earlier this month, I wrote a two part article for the Library of Law & Liberty, critiquing the uncritical condemnation of income inequality by world religious leaders.In part 1, I pointed out that...
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Explaining Social Mobility Using Legos
“Can you explain that important economic concept using Legos?”Apparently, someone must have said that to Richard Reeves, an economist at the Brookings Institution economist, because he’s made a brief...
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I’m a Giant in Japan. Or, Why Income Inequality is Irrelevant
For most of my life I was, at 5-foot-10, of exactly average height. But in the span of one day in 1989 I became freakishly tall.While I hadn’t grown an inch upward, I had moved 6,000 miles eastward to...
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Increase Minimum Wage Or Increase Employment?
One holdover from 2014 into the new year is the cry for an increase in the minimum wage. President Obama pledged (in a December 2014 speech) to bump the minimum wage up to $9/hour nationally. Many...
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Redistribution and the State of the Union
Today at Think Christian I reflect on President Obama’s State of the Union message last night. I think it was perhaps the best speech I have heard him give in terms of delivery and general tone. There...
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Is Your Child “Richer” Than the “Poorest” 2 Billion People in the World...
“The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.”The stat was quoted last month in a report by the development organization Oxfam, but similar claims have...
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How Christianity Gave Us the Modern World
“Christianity undergirded the development of Western liberalism (in the old, good sense of the word),” says Rich Lowry. In fact, without Christianity there would probably not be anything like what we...
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What Patricia Arquette Should Have Said About the Wage Gap and Women’s Rights
During last night’s Oscar ceremony, Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette used her acceptance speech to rail against unfair pay for women:To every women who gave birth to every taxpayer and...
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How Minimum Wage Laws Are Like Geocentrism
Geocentrism was the belief that the sun, the planets, and all the stars revolve around the Earth. The alternative view—heliocentricism—had been around since the 3 BC but was not taken seriously until...
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The Federal ‘Anti-Poverty’ Program that Taxes the Poor
Imagine you’re at the checkout line at the supermarket and the clerk asks how much income your family earns each year. Offended, you ask why that is any of her business. Read more on The Federal...
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