Economics

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Fatal attraction: democracy and the welfare state

Samuel Gregg | 22 June 2010 |

tags: democracy, economics, Global Financial Crisis, welfare state

Expansive and expensive welfare programs have brought European social democracies to the verge of catastrophe. Will democracy hamper economic reform?

Europe’s monetary sins

Samuel Gregg | 07 June 2010 |

tags: economics, Global Financial Crisis

The bailout of Greece is a stunning about-face that calls into question Europe’s commitment to a stable currency.

Gross national happiness

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 April 2010 |

tags: economics, environment, happiness

'We’re from the government and we are here to make you happier.' Really?

More to life than GDP

William West | 08 October 2009 |

tags: economics, family, politics

A report prepared for the French government questions the use of GDP as the sole indicator of social progress.

What’s love got to do with it?

Alejo Jose G. Sison | 13 August 2009 |

tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic social teaching, Christianity, economics

A business ethicist offers a professional view of Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical on ethics in business, 'Caritas in veritate'.

Iran’s plummeting birth rates

Michael Cook | 11 August 2009 |

tags: demography, economics, family planning, Islam, population control

Despite its fundamentalist Islamic reputation Iran has experimented with birth control with some unexpected, and unwelcome, consequences.

Money from love

Robert A. Gahl, Jr | 10 July 2009 |

tags: economics, Pope Benedict XVI

In an encyclical released this week, an intellectually adventurous Pope asserts that love is ultimately the solution to the world economic crisis.

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