'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
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