Theology’s Invisible Hand DANIEL K. FINN Benjamin M. Friedman is a macroeconomist at Harvard who has nurtured a lifelong interest in intellectual history. I was personally affected by his...
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Daniel K. Finn 'What Can You Do?' UNDERSTANDING SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES Several years ago, I was leaving Guatemala on a Sunday morning when the newspaper ran a front-page story about a wealthy...
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Daniel K. Finn Spreading the Wealth Inequality What Can Be Done? Anthony B. Atkinson Harvard University Press, $29.95, 400 pp. In April 2015, Dan Price, the founder and CEO of a credit-card...
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SHORT TAKE Daniel K. Finn Understanding Scarcity HOW BEING POOR IS LIKE BEING TOO BUSY Mainstream economics is famous for its assumption that people are rational maximizers, acting in their own...
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SHORT TAKES Daniel K. Finn Smart Money THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR FUNDING PRE-K When Bill de Blasio made universal pre-kinder-garten a cornerstone of his campaign for mayor of New York, his message...
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SHORT TAKES Daniel K. Finn Gamed WHAT WALL STREET HAS IN COMMON WITH THE OLYMPICS Badminton doesn’t usually garner much attention at the Olympics, but it did this past summer, when...
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ELECTION 2012 Daniel K. Finn Dear Prudence TRANSLATING MORAL PRINCIPLE INTO PUBLIC POLICY There has recently been much talk about whether Rep. Paul Ryan's budget is faithful to the principles...
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ELECTION 2012 DanielK. Finn The Priority of Labor ROMNEY, BAIN CAPITAL & CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING Private equity firms typically play their cards close to the vest and resist public scrutiny,...
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SHORT TAKE DanielK. Finn When Is Self-interest Moral? A GAP IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING Lutheran bishop Peter Rogness recently decried our national loss of awareness that government is...
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