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Fairness in the market
What is conservation and what is waste can only be measured by the price system in a market setting.Defending the weak and the idol of equality
Protecting the weak is realistic in a way that trying to create absolute equality is not.Doubled-edged sword: The power of the Word
There are other practices in Deuteronomy that are described as abominable, practices with a more readily identifiable detestable nature such as sorcery, idolatry, and offering children in pagan rites. It is among such company that the law places one who cheats another out of a few cents in business.The dividends of social capital
If a culture places importance on virtues that help create prosperity – honesty, fairness, personal responsibility, the importance of hard work, and respect for law – it creates an atmosphere of trust, which engenders spontaneous and voluntary collaboration and creates the conditions where business and entrepreneurship can flourishTrust and entrepreneurship
The virtue of trust is critical in a free-market economy, including for the risk taking – that is, entrepreneurship and investment – that drives economic growth forward. High degrees of trust must exist in the economic system, in the government, in businesses, and in consumers.Editor's note
Do you have to be good to do well? This issue looks at that question.The virtues of development
Entrepreneurs and advocates of market freedom have a special obligation to emphasize the responsible use of prosperity, leisure, and charity.For I was hungry and you fed Me: Ag-biotech and hunger
For those with the gift of plenty, there are, of course, situations where alms are not only good but morally imperative. Alms, however, cannot be the rule. Rather, it is important that every country tries to produce enough food or other goods to trade for food. We do no one a favor if we make them dependent on us for their survival.I, T-shirt: Lessons from the cotton industry
Dr. Pietra Rivoli's new work, detailing the life cycle of a T-shirt, approaches the politics of world trade on a personal, and not an ideological, level.Doubled-edged sword: The power of the Word
Deuteronomy 8:3 “He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.” Deuteronomy 8:3Loving our neighbor - near and far
The condemnation of daily life in the capitalist West is a uniquely diabolical temptation hindering our alleviation of global poverty.Editor's note
In this issue of Religion & Liberty, our thoughts turn to situations where that growth and dynamism is most needed: the desperate situations of poverty and hunger that still persist.