Christian Economics
#185 Perfection is Found only in Heaven
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/185-Perfection-is-Found-Only-in-Heaven.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreWe can’t make a perfect economic system. But we can make it better. God is perfect, we’re not. But that doesn’t stop people from striving for perfection. So how do we design an economic system for an imperfect world? That’s…
Read More#184 Competition is More Effective Than Regulations
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Read More#183 Who Should Care for the Homeless
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Read More#180 We are God’s Creative Creatures
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Read More#177 A Culture of Work
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Read More#174 Never Let a Crisis go to Waste
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Read More#169 How Green Policies Impoverish the Poor
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Read More#168 How Fiscal Policy Harms the Poor
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Read More#158 The Market Gives the Poor a Raise
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Read More#156 Digital Marxism
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/156-Digital-Marxism.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreKarl Marx said that workers should own the means of production. In the digital economy, they do: a computer and a smartphone. Karl Marx called for workers to have ownership of the means of production. When he wrote The Communist…
Read More#154 Predicting the Future
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Read More#153 How to Destroy an Economy
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Read More#143 Why Work?
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Read More#136 Global Warming is Good
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/136-Global-Warming-is-Good.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More#136 Global Warming is Good The Christian Economist looks at “The other hand” of global warming, and finds some good effects. The Inflation reduction plan signed by President Biden recently will reduce inflation by…..wait for it….are you ready? I’m…
Read More#134 Be Fruitful & Multiply
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Read More#133 South America Turns Socialist
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Read More#125 Misinformation & Economic Competition
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Read More#124 The March of Foolish Things
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Read More#123 Name, Image, Likeness
http://media.blubrry.com/1463975/davearnott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/123-Name-Image-Likeness.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More#123 Name, Image, Likeness The “Name, Image, Likeness” policy allows collegiate athletes to earn money from their individual endorsements. This increase in freedom is in line with Christian Economics. I received an unusual invitation from our Athletic Department at…
Read More#122 The Freedom to Work
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Read More#121 The Inflation Tax
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