Our Week-in-Review feature has a new format. We know there's way too much to read out there already, so we're going to be highlighting the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. Academic Nobel News - The Nobel Prizes are being handed out this week, and, as usual, academic researchers did quite well. The prize for Medicine went to Elizabeth … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Nobel Prize Edition
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Week in Review: Numbers Edition
Our Week-in-Review feature has returned, with a new format. We know there's way too much to read out there already, so we're going to be highlighting the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis - Kevin Offner, who works with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries in Washington, DC, tipped us off to … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Numbers Edition
Week in Review
Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009): Check out "virtual re-unification" about 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, i.e., the earliest surviving Christian Bible, at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Is it a The rival to the Bible (BBC News, Roger Bolton, October 6, 2008)? Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? (Robin … [Read more...] about Week in Review
Christians and the “empirical prison” of economics
Andy Crouch asks a very good question about Christian integration in economics: David Brooks gets it just right. We are not machines, and neither is our economy. So where, oh where, are the Christian economists whose work is deeply informed by a non-mechanistic view of human nature, and the 'faith and trust' that economies require?' Brooks is writing about the "empirical prison" of economics on both the right and the left. I have some thoughts, but let's hear yours first. Who are the Christian economists we ought to … [Read more...] about Christians and the “empirical prison” of economics
The Making of an Economist
In Books & Culture, Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest, reviews the updated The Making of an Economist (Redux), an examination of the country's best graduate programs in economics and the process by which they "turn a select group of bright students into the analytical economists that society has come to hate, yet revere." Whaples notes that the first edition of this book "became must reading for those considering taking the plunge" into an economics graduate program. … [Read more...] about The Making of an Economist