The following is a slightly revised version of my presentation at the faculty workshop on “Christianity and the Marketplace,” held in August 2017, at the Offutt School of Business, Concordia College. I was given the topic “Ethics of Inequality,” but I ended up talking mostly about the nature and logic of capitalism, which is what…
The following is a slightly revised version of my presentation at the annual Faith, Reason, and World Affairs Symposium held at Concordia College, Moorhead, on the topic of “Sustainability” on September 17, 2014. I still think that capitalism is incompatible with sustainability, but I don’t believe that it is the final root cause. Some people…
Chomsky’s advice is that we should vote for Biden if we live in a “swing state.” The advice is based on the LEV strategy, which, in turn, is based on the ethic of responsibility. The problem, however, is that different individuals starting from the ethic of responsibility do not necessarily reach the same conclusion as…