Best Steven McMullen Podcasts (2024)

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Enoch Hill on Jubilee and Economic Justice 1:00:18

3y ago1:00:18

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This episode features another segment from the ACE panel on economic justice from the 2021 ASSA meetings. We start by hearing Enoch Hill’s presentation about the economic justice lessons that can be drawn from the Jubilee prescriptions from the Old Testament. Then I interview Enoch about his presentation and we dig into the arguments he raises. Alo…

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Daniel Finn on Four Myths Concerning Taxation and Government Spending 44:43

3y ago44:43

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This episode is the second in our series on economic justice, this time featuring Daniel Finn. We start with a recording of Dan’s presentation from our January panel, in which we asked four scholars to respond to the prompt: “What Does a Christian Vision for Economic Justice Require of United States Policy Regarding Taxation and Government Spending…

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John Anderson on Justice in Public Finance 56:41

3y ago56:41

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In January 2021 at the ASSA meetings the Association of Christian Economists hosted two academic sessions. One of those was a panel of theologians and economists, all tasked with answering the following question: “What does a Christian Vision for Economic Justice Require of United States Policy Regarding Taxation and Government Spending?” The four …

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Ngina Chiteji on the Criminal Justice System 1:02:14

3y ago1:02:14

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This episode is an interview of Ngina Chiteji, an associate professor of economics at NYU. She does research on wealth and savings, crime, and inequality. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Black Political Economy, and co-editor of a volume on wealth accumulation in communities of color. In it we discuss criminal justice reform and mass…

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Rob Tatum on Eschatology and Economic Policy 51:20

3+ y ago51:20

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This episode features a conversation with Rob Tatum, an economist that has been doing some interesting writing about theology and economic policy. The paper we discuss in some detail here recently came out in the new Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion. The title of the article is “To What Ends for Theology-Oriented Economic Policymaking.” …

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ACE Event: The Promise And Limits of Economics 59:51

3+ y ago59:51

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On January 9th, the American Enterprise Institute’s Initiative on Faith and Public Life hosted their annual retreat for faculty. This year the theme was a question: "What would a truly humane economy look like in the United States?" The retreat was cosponsored with the Association of Christian Economists. There were some great conversations over th…

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End of the Year Book Recommendations with Jamin Hübner 1:17:37

3+ y ago1:17:37

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In this final episode of 2020, we decided to do a retrospective episode about the best recently published books we had read this year. I am joined by Jamin Hübner, a friend, scholar, and voracious reader who has regularly writes book reviews for Faith & Economics. Over the course of our conversation, we take turns recommending books and talking abo…

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ACE Event: Edd Noell on Smith and the Scholastics on the Morality of Markets 34:34

3+ y ago34:34

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This episode features a lecture given by economist and historian Edd Noell titled “Smith and the Scholastic Tradition on Markets and Their Moral Rationale.” This lecture was part of a session on new thinking about Adam Smith jointly sponsored by the Association of Christian Economists and the History of Economics Society at the ASSA meetings almost…

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ACE Event: Paul Oslington on Adam Smith's Economics of Religion 36:14

3+ y ago36:14

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This week we have a recording of a lecture delivered at the 2020 ASSA meetings in San Diego. At that conference, the association of Christian economists sponsored two sessions, and the one I will highlight here was a series of talks on Adam Smith and religion. The session was co-sponsored by the History of Economics Society. In this episode, I will…

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Denise Daniels on Christian Higher Education 1:00:06

4y ago1:00:06

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This episode features Denise Daniels from Wheaton college talking about Christian Higher education. The impetus for this conversation was a paper that she published with Caleb Henry and Bradley Jensen Murg in the Journal of Markets and Morality. Their thesis is that the current demographic and economic challenges that face Christian liberal arts co…

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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich with Art Carden 48:30

4y ago48:30

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This episode is a conversation with Art Carden from Samford University. Art is an excellent scholar and a great popularizer of economic ideas. The occasion for our conversation is a new book that he has just published with the great economic historian Deidre McCloskey. The title is Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enric…

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Jordan Ballor on Scarcity and Ethics in Theology and Economics 55:32

4y ago55:32

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This episode features a conversation with Jordan Ballor, a senior research fellow at the Acton Institute. We take a deep dive into the ways that theologians and economists tend to disagree. Our starting point is an essay that Ballor wrote about the different interpretations of the word “scarcity.” We talk at length about the different starting assu…

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Greg Forster on Economics, Theology, and Keynesian Thought 1:00:43

4y ago1:00:43

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In this episode, Steven McMullen interviews Greg Forster about two recent books that he has published. Greg is a political philosopher by training, but his work has spanned history, theology, economics, and political theory. He is the director of the Oikonomia Network, an organization that helps Christians think about theology and work. He is the a…

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A Conversation about the Association of Christian Economists 48:21

4y ago48:21

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This episode is an introduction to the Association of Christian Economists. We talk about the history of the organization, including some of the big conversations that have animated scholars over the last 40 years, and a bit about what the Association is doing today. The guests are Edd Noell, current president of ACE, and Michael Anderson, our past…

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Scott Cunningham on the Economics of Prostitution 1:16:19

4y ago1:16:19

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This episode features an interview with Scott Cunningham about markets for prostitution and his book on causal inference. Cunningham is a thoughtful scholar working at the cutting edge of empirical microeconomics. He is a professor of economics at Baylor University, a research fellow at the texas Hunger Initiative and at the Computational Justice L…

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Stephen Smith on China 50:01

4y ago50:01

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This episode features Stephen Smith from Hope College. Smith talks about the place of China in the global economy, U.S. policy toward China, changes in Chinese governance, and the Chinese church. Smith grew up in Hong Kong and has visited China numerous times in adulthood, often traveling with undergraduate students. He is a close observer of Chine…

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Bruce Wydick on Being a Shrewd Samaritan 51:12

4y ago51:12

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In this episode, Steven McMullen interviews economist Bruce Wydick about his recent book Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving our Global Neighbor (Thomas Nelson, 2019). (https://www.thomasnelson.com/9780785221524/shrewd-samaritan/) Bruce is a Professor of Economics and the director of the Program in International and Developme…

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Introducing Faithful Economy 3:41

4y ago3:41

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In this quick trailer for the podcast, I give you a taste of what we have planned for the show. Check it out, and then move on to our first episode right away. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/faithfuleconomy/support

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Enoch Hill on Jubilee and Economic Justice 1:00:18

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Daniel Finn on Four Myths Concerning Taxation and Government Spending 44:43

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John Anderson on Justice in Public Finance 56:41

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Ngina Chiteji on the Criminal Justice System 1:02:14

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Rob Tatum on Eschatology and Economic Policy 51:20

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ACE Event: The Promise And Limits of Economics 59:51

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End of the Year Book Recommendations with Jamin Hübner 1:17:37

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ACE Event: Edd Noell on Smith and the Scholastics on the Morality of Markets 34:34

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ACE Event: Paul Oslington on Adam Smith's Economics of Religion 36:14

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Denise Daniels on Christian Higher Education 1:00:06

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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich with Art Carden 48:30

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Jordan Ballor on Scarcity and Ethics in Theology and Economics 55:32

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Greg Forster on Economics, Theology, and Keynesian Thought 1:00:43

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A Conversation about the Association of Christian Economists 48:21

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Scott Cunningham on the Economics of Prostitution 1:16:19

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Stephen Smith on China 50:01

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Bruce Wydick on Being a Shrewd Samaritan 51:12

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Introducing Faithful Economy 3:41

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