These days it's not often that one hears a robust and convincing case for the superiority of capitalism over all competing economic systems. Discovery Institute's Jay Richards, who speaks below, is an amazing scholar. I first became acquainted with him through his work on "The Privileged Planet" book and video. I thought his expertise was limited to science. How wrong I was. I regard his economics talk as simply brilliant. It serves as an introduction to his book, Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem.
Wintery Knight, whose recent blog post alerted me to this video, in an earlier post suggested listening to a series of 4 sermons by Wayne Grudem (a notable theologian) on the relationship between Christianity and economics? (a PDF outline is here).
Related previous "Muddling" posts -
-- TWO DISTINCT WORLDVIEWS: THE COMPETING WORLDVIEWS OF THE TEA PARTY AND OCCUPY WALL STREET
-- INCOME INEQUALITY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE (VIDEO)
-- C-SPAN VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN WILLIAMSON, AUTHOR OF "THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO SOCIALISM"
-- JONAH GOLDBERG - THE MARVEL OF FREE ENTERPRISE (OR, PUT DIFFERENTLY, WHY CENTRAL PLANNING NEVER WORKS)
-- WORLD MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
-- JONAH GOLDBERG - CAPITALISM'S BAD RAP
-- CAPITALISM AND THE BIBLE
-- Ayn Rand's Novel "Atlas Shrugged" Published 50 Years Ago [critiques]
-- Capitalism - The "Way Up" for the Poor
Posts by Wintery Knight related to Jay Richards:
- Jay Richards: what should Christians think about global warming?
- What conditions support the minimum requirements for complex life?
- Answering the question “Who Designed the Designer?”
- Should Christians be socialists?
- Jay Richards asks: what should Christians believe about global warming?
- Should Christians support wealth redistribution as a way to alleviate poverty?
- Brian Auten interviews Jay Richards about Christian apologetics
- Jay Richards investigates whether George Soros is funding Jim Wallis
- Frank Turek interviews Jay Richards on Christianity and capitalism
- Doug Axe publishes a new peer-reviewed paper on protein folding
- Jay Richards explains when you should doubt “scientific consensus”
- First Things reviews Jay Richards’ Money, Greed and God
- Video of the Stanford debate between Jay Richards and Christopher Hitchens