http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com Christianity and Economics Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/02/26/thanks-to-brophy-students/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/02/26/thanks-to-brophy-students/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:40 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1278
I had the privilege of meeting with three groups of most extraordinary young men this week. They were freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Brophy Jesuit Prep in Phoenix, Arizona. Brophy conducts a Summit each year in which the entire school explores implications of the Catholic response to a given issue. This year the theme [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/02/26/thanks-to-brophy-students/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/01/11/henry-t-edmundson-on-why-read-flannery-oconnor/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/01/11/henry-t-edmundson-on-why-read-flannery-oconnor/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:56:07 +0000 Henry T. Edmondson III http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1266
Several new translations of Southern Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor’s works have appeared in Spain recently. They are not the first translations of her fiction and prose in Castillian, but these efforts aim to bring her work up to date in the Kingdom of Spain. O’Connor’s work hasn’t changed, of course, but the Spanish language has, so [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2010/01/11/henry-t-edmundson-on-why-read-flannery-oconnor/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/29/avatar-amen/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/29/avatar-amen/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:42:19 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1257
I saw the movie Avatar last night. Beautiful film visually. It really did feel like I was entering the world of the Na’vi. But it was a stupid movie story-wise. The villains are technology, the greedy mining officials, and their hired mercenaries. James Cameron wanted to paint the mining corporation, the military, and advanced technology with [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/29/avatar-amen/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/08/greenhouse-gas/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/08/greenhouse-gas/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:59:22 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1246
In the 1998 Avengers movie, Sean Connery plays an extortionist who says at one point “The weather is no longer in God’s hands… it’s in mine.” Water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas by volume, bigger even than carbon dioxide, and so must have a tremendous impact on weather.  Yet the Environmental Protection Agency did not identify water vapor [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/08/greenhouse-gas/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/04/profit-and-love-of-neighbor/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/04/profit-and-love-of-neighbor/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:31:10 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1237
A man was stripped and beaten by robbers. A priest passed by the injured man. So did a Levite man. The Good Samaritan described in Luke 10: 30-37 stopped to help the man.  But the Samaritan did more than offer immediate comfort. He took the injured man to an inn and told the inn keeper he would [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/12/04/profit-and-love-of-neighbor/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/25/the-bushido-of-climate-consensus-building/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/25/the-bushido-of-climate-consensus-building/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:55 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1231
Bushido is a Japanese term which means “way of the warrior.” Does economic activity cause adverse climate effects that require restrictive regulation on a global scale? This is an economic and political, as well as a scientific question. Some scientists have let their political preferences influence their work as academic scientists. This Washington Post article re-printed an email [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/25/the-bushido-of-climate-consensus-building/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/19/gm-zombie-the-economics-of-the-undead/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/19/gm-zombie-the-economics-of-the-undead/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:24:48 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1225
Since it declared bankruptcy on 1 June 2009, General Motors has been walking around doing its car-selling business with one minor problem. It is economically undead and a kind of corporate zombie. Ahhhhhh! GM is a private company no more and mostly dead to the market forces and incentives that guide privately owned auto companies, like [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/19/gm-zombie-the-economics-of-the-undead/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:28:25 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1219
The European Court of Human Rights decided in favor of a parent who claimed crucifixes on display in public schools in Italy, that’s Italy mind you, interfered with her right to raise her child according to the values she believes in.  There are crosses on church steeples in the visible skylines of one or more [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/feed/ 5 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:27 +0000 Seamus Mulholland http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1215
The freedom of the individual is a freedom guaranteed by their individuality. It is not a freedom guaranteed by any political or socio-economic system; rather, the ‘system’ serves the freedom of the individual insofar as the system creates the environment whereby the individual person can come to the fullness of their humanity.  Any system of [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/28/seamus-mulholland-on-freedom-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/18/what-to-pay-the-pay-pooh-bah/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/18/what-to-pay-the-pay-pooh-bah/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:46:03 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1208
Somewhere between all the money in the world and none of it is the proper amount of dollars to pay a given manager. Or anyone for that matter. I think the most important question about compensation is not so much how much it is but how pay is determined. And by whom. Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, former chief of [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/10/18/what-to-pay-the-pay-pooh-bah/feed/ 0