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Several weeks ago, my economics professor challenged one of my strongly held beliefs, and it’s shown me only how deluded and narrow my own thinking has been. And, in turn, it’s shown me how deluded and narrow a lot of thinking has become. Writing this letter to you

In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures force a change in the rules of the game. I’m seeing the “three pillars” of society—the state, markets, and communities—work together to tackle the coronavirus, and it makes me wonder how much more they could tackle if they worked together more often.

Many questions have arisen since reading Friedman and Hayek. Most prominently, how is the Christian worldview compatible with theirs? Or is it? What is then the relationship between the state, markets, and communities? For instance, in the second chapter of Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, he wrote that “coercion of

Last week I had a meeting with my economics professor in which he turned my intellectual world upside down. For a while I’ve been preaching the good news of stakeholder capitalism and all its glory. CEOs are overpaid, communities are suffering, income inequality is at staggering levels, and all

Earlier this week I wrote that having a role like a chief moral philosopher is a good thing, but it could be costly. Delta Airlines, as an example, took a stand for the values they believed in, which cost them a tax break worth $40 million. However, there’s some

Last week, Quartz published an article on a topic I’ve been preaching for years: Companies should have at the highest levels a person whose role is simply to ask hard, moral and ethical questions, and then write principled guidelines for the business. This person should have formal training in

Organizations are reinventing themselves around the customer experience (CX). This means they create relevant, personalized experiences for the customer, like using your last order to inform your next one, displaying products that you might be looking for, or, of course, plain old good customer service. When CX is done right,

The more I think about economics, business, and work, and how these relate to theology, the more important it is for me to develop a holistic vision for how all these pieces work together. Christianity offers the best version of this vision, a vision I’m summarizing in the analogy

Education is a category that’s ripe for disruption. Tuition has grown faster than incomes over the last decade, eating into slow-growing wages and rising inequality. Additionally, the internet has created a way for people to learn virtually anything for free from world-leading experts—even sophisticated topics like quantitative finance

Over the last few years, a debate around the term “capitalism” has intensified. Is capitalism good, or should it be thrown out and replaced with socialism? Over 40% of Americans, by the way, believe socialism would be a good thing for the country. It’s simplistic to think of socialism