Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem
The good news about capitalism\ \ Jay Richards presents a new approach to capitalism, revealing how it's fully consistent with Jesus's teachings and the Christian tradition—and our best bet for renewed economic vigor.\ Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism—including the notion that capitalism is based on greed—and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.
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Richards argues against the current dualistic view Christianity has cast on capitalism-all good or all evil-and reveals the surprising ways that capitalism is actually the best way to follow Jesus’s mandates to alleviate poverty and protect our earth. Washington Times “Money, Greed, and God is both thoughtful and important.”
Introduction Can a Christian be a capitalist? 11 Can't we build a just society? 92 What would Jesus do? 333 Doesn't capitalism foster unfair competition? 594 If I become rich, won't someone else become poor? 835 Isn't capitalism based on greed/ 1116 Hasn't Christianity always opposed capitalism? 1357 Doesn't capitalism lead to an ugly consumerist culture? 1578 Are we going to use up all the resources? 183Conclusion Working all things together for good 209App Is the "spontaneous order" of the market evidence of a universe without purpose? 217Acknowledgments 225Notes 227
\ Michael Novak"Jay Richards understands the objections to capitalism, and here explains why they do not convince him. The empirical findings revealed in Money, Greed, and God run against those objections."\ \ \ \ \ Reverend - Robert A. Sirico\ In Money, Greed, and God, Jay Richards shows us . . . a capitalism grounded in the truth about human beings as free, morally responsible, co-creators charged with dominion and stewardship of the earth by the loving God to whom we are all ultimately accountable.\ \ \ Washington Times"Money, Greed, and God is both thoughtful and important."\ \ \ \ \ George Gilder"In Money, Greed, and God, Jay Richards has written the definitive case for capitalism, a crisply written and incisive discourse on wealth and poverty, money and morality for the 21st Century."\ \
