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Proverbs teaches that anger is addictive and irrational. It may be appropriate at times, but those times are never as common as we like to think (especially when we are angry).
Proverbs teaches that anger is addictive and irrational. It may be appropriate at times, but those times are never as common as we like to think (especially when we are angry).
Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. | REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo There is a school of thought in economics which believes that beginners are best taught the subject by considering the story of Robinson Crusoe. I will leave the school of economics nameless because getting into debates about economic philosophy is not the purpose of this post. Crusoe, the fictional creation of Daniel Defoe, was famously shipwrecked alone on an island. He learned to survive on his own and then later with the help ...
"Say not, 'Why were the former days better than these?' For it is not from wisdom that you ask this." (Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV). When I get into discussions about “economic issues” with fellow Christians, sometimes it seems that nostalgia has taken the place of reason and ethics.
Inflation, unemployment, worker shortages? What’s going on? I’ve got some ideas and I’m sure you do, too. But after we’ve solved our political and structural problems (take an imaginary trip into optimism with me for the sake of thinking long-term), we might also ask: What type of people or culture will best deal with economic hard times?