Category Archives: Economics

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher (7-20-18)

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

* The education and Catholic conversion of E.F. Schumacher. From the Amazon reviews: * Small Is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as “Buy Locally” and “Fair … Continue reading →

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23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Luke Ford

From Amazon.com: The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the … Continue reading →

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Kevin Michael Grace Book Club: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game (6-8-18)

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Luke Ford

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold new work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, … Continue reading →

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Is Anyone Who Opposes Free Trade A Bigot?

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: My thanks to Profs. Mankiw, Mansfield and Mutz for pointing out that anyone who questions free trade is a bigot, xenophobe and isolationist. I had thought that this heresy might spring from the life experience of Americans, unhappily not … Continue reading →

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The Case Against Free Trade

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Luke Ford

The Conservative Treehouse: When you understand the scope of food export, and also the risks of food manufacturing, and when you understand the severity of quality control needed to produce food safely, you begin to understand why massive corporations are … Continue reading →

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