Archive: Biblical Economics Today (1978-1997)
I began this newsletter of the Institute for Christian Economics in February 1978.
Here are the articles, posted in chronological order. A PDF of each issue is available at the end of each article.
1978
A Sense of Accomplishment
A Christian View of Labor Unions
When the Treasuries Are Empty
Death Insurance
The Social Insecurity System
"God Will Take Care of Me!"
1979
Consumer Sovereignty vs. Man's Autonomy
Economics: Biblical vs. Secular
Compound Economic Growth
Isaiah's Critique of Inflation
The Society of Satan
A Christian Action Plan for the 1980s
1980
Political Masochism
Humanism's Chaplains
An Economic Forecast for the Eighties
Separation and Dominion
The Growth of Human Capital
The Entrepreneurial Function
1981
Who Should Certify Competence?
The Christian and Tax Strikes: Pros and Cons
The Mosaic Head Tax and State Financing
Thesis on Tithing
Squeezing Through the Eye of the Needle
Christianity and Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
1982
The Importance of the 700 Club
Ronald Sider Contra Deum
Sugar Daddies
The Spirit of Excellence
Insurance and Common Grace
1983
Why Fight to Lose?
Unprofitable Servants
The Fulfillment of the Jubilee Year
Tithers and Beggars
Witnesses and Judges
Imperial Bureaucracy
1984
Christ's Mind and Economic Reconstruction
The Story of a Suppressed Book on Restoring Christian Society
Some Problems with "Messianic Judaism"
The Moral Issue of "Honest Money"
Gold, Silver, and Precious Stones
Biblical Pluralism and Economic Order
1985
The War Between Three Types of Religion
The Sabbath Millennium
Planned Famine in Ethiopia
Competence, Common Grace, and Dominion
Crushing the Serpent's Statistical Head
Revival: True and False
1986
Pollution Control and Biblical Justice
What Kingdom Model Are Humanists Perverting?
Jesus' Legacy to His People: The World
Bankruptcy and Revolution
Paper Money
What Are Biblical Blueprints?
1987
"No Trespassing!"
Tariffs: The Preferred Tax of Masochists
How to Win a Tariff War: Surrender!
Should American Business Give Up Smoking?
The Home Business as a Christian Calling
The Morals and Economics of Labor Unions
1988
Incentive Dynamics in the Tabernacle Corporation
Pluralism and Tex Exemption
The Jubilee Year and Abolitionism
There's No (Autonomous) Accounting for Taste
Christianity and Wealth
The Moral Legitimacy of Interest and Banking
1989
Are Operation Rescue's Critics Self-Serving?
The Covenantal Structure of Service
Who's in Charge Here?
To Whom Do I Report?
What Are the Rules?
What Do I Get if I Obey (Disobey)?
1990
Does This Outfit Have a Future?
Interest-Free Utopia: Where Time Is Not Scarce
Limited Liability and Incorporation
Haggling as an Information-Transmission System
Crackpot Economics in the Name of Jesus
Some Undiscussed Costs of World Revival
1991
Tithing and Submission
Envy and Entertainment
How to Engineer an Energy Crisis
Exploitation and Knowledge
Why Biblical Economics Is Ignored Today, Part 1
Why Biblical Economics Is Ignored Today, Part 2
1992
Name It and Claim It
Was Joseph an Immoral Ruler?
Ghetto Eschatologies
Royal Priests, Tin Cups in Hand
A Bootstrap Curriculum (Part 1)
A Bootstrap Curriculum (Part 2)
1993
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 1: Servants of the Lord, Masters of Culture
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 2: The Costs of Leadership
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 3: Prophets, Leaders, Followers, Losers
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 4: Scarecrow Theology
Leadership and Discipleship: Part 5: Dominion Through Subordination
Leadership and Discipleship: Part 6: Dominion Through Tithing
1994
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 7: Wilderness Training for Victory
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 8: Masters Lead, Journeymen Follow
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 9: The Frustrations of Leadership
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 10: Leaders Require Followers
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 11: Articulate the Goals
Leadership and Discipleship, Part 12: Fear and Paralysis
1995
Leadership and Discipleship: Part 13: When Kingdoms Are in Conflict
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 1: Knowledge and Dominion
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 2: Scarcity and Ownership
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 3: The Division of Labor
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 4: The Rights of Labor
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 5: Profit, Thrift, and Tools
1996
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 6: Money
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 7: Interest and Rent
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 8: Legitimate and Illegitimate Banking
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Part 9: Consumer Sovereignty
Christian Economics in One Lesson, Conclusion
Moses' Law and Moore's Law: More!
1997
Money: The Universal Icon
The Wealth of Nations
Money and the Division of Labor
Elijah's Job