June 19th, 2010
Can’t We Build a Just Society? Myth no. 1: The Nirvana Myth (contrasting capitalism with an unrealizable ideal rather than with its live alternatives) Richards gives more of his story in this chapter. He was raised in a conservative Texas town, and had a somewhat liberal youth pastor. By the time he graduated high school, he felt like he had a moral obligation to rebel against the conservative authorities in the area.
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June 9th, 2010
I just picked up a book by Jay W. Richards titled Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. I heard him interviewed, and was intrigued, because until now, the only work of his that I’m familiar with is The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery(also available on DVD, I’d recommend both). Naturally I wondered how Richards–who has a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology, is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, and spends a lot of time talking about cosmology–could also be expert enough to write a book about economics. So I picked up a copy, and have started reading it.
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