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Recently, some theological ethicists have criticized modern economics for offering a rival theology that undermines an … appreciation for creation and God’s gifts. In their view, through the logic of opportunity cost, economics substitutes a tragic … world of scarcity for God’s abundance. Further, the focus in economics on maximizing utility teaches us to be restless …
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. Economics, with its insistence on quantifying ideas and putting specific quantitative values on all manner of phenomena, can … help us sort through many puzzling dilemmas. Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy is designed to help soon …
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. Economics itself is part of the double movement. A second look at Polanyi's might be fruitful to face present challenges better …
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Regardless of the fact that economics distinguishes itself from other social sciences by a high level of formal …
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Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …
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