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Gleaner Technology
Gleaning is the traditional Biblical practice of gathering crops that would otherwise be left in the fields to rot, or be plowed under after harvest. The biblical mandate for the practice comes from...
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Gleaner Tech #1: Solar Bottle Lights in the Philippines
[Note: This is the first in an occasional series on gleaner technology.]In the Philippines, the cost of electricity often means poor citizens are left in the dark—even when the sun is shining.Read more...
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Video: The False Promise of Green Energy
For PowerBlog readers, we’re posting the video from Andrew Morriss’ April 26 Acton Lecture Series talk in Grand Rapids, Mich., on “The False Promise of Green Energy.” Here’s the lecture description:...
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Free Market Environmentalism for Religious Leaders
Our friends at the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) in Bozeman, Mont., have put together another strong slate of summer programs for clergy, seminary professors and...
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A Digital Scriptorium on Mt Sinai
The Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine’s MonasteryThe Egypt Independent has a fascinating account of the process underway now to digitize the first-millennium manuscripts...
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Get a Free Chapter of ‘Defending the Free Market’
Acton Institute has crafted a website for Rev. Robert Sirico’s new book, Defending the Free Market. With this you can give the defendingthefreemarket.com web address to your friends for an...
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Rev. Robert Sirico: Creative Destruction and the Pruning Shears
Online today on the American Spectator is an article by Acton’s president, the Rev. Robert Sirico. In it, Rev. Sirico discusses the phenomenon of “creative destruction,” peculiar to free market...
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The New and Improved AU Online
In case you haven’t already heard the rumor, allow me to fill you in: AU Online has an awesome, newly revamped website and digital learning platform. AU Online is designed to make the resources and...
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Combatting Textbook Tyranny
In addition to my post in late November about the textbook bubble (spurred by this post from AEI’s Mark Perry), the Atlantic‘s Jordan Weissmann joins the discussion, asking, “Why Are College Textbooks...
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Film Review: Don’t Believe in ‘Promised Land’
Environmental issues have increasingly become polarized. No sooner has a new technology been announced than some outspoken individual climbs athwart it to cry, “Stop!” in the name of Mother Earth. To...
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Christians in the New Industrial Economy
The Acton Institute recently partnered with the Christian History Institute to produce the latest issue of Christian History magazine. The issue (which you can download as a free PDF) examines the...
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Innovation is a Moral Obligation
Innovation is an ethical matter through and through, says Chris MacDonald, because ethics is fundamentally concerned with anything that can promote or hinder human wellbeing. Innovation is generally a...
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Architecture, Human Flourishing, and Health Care
In a recent issue of Metropolis Magazine, Thomas de Monchaux tells the story of an amazing lesson about innovation that Americans can learn from Rwandans. This is no surprise but readers will learn...
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Ralph Baer and the Art of Innovation
In the video below, Ralph Baer, the “father of video games,” explains why he still invents at 90 years old. “What do you expect me to do?” he asks. He likens invention to the work of a painter. Would...
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Cell Phones, Microfinance, and Poverty
A recent report by the United Nations states that out of the world’s seven billion people, six billion have a mobile phone, but only 4.5 billion have a modern toilet. In India, there are almost 900...
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Interview: George Gilder on ‘Knowledge and Power’
At Forbes.com, Jerry Bowyer interviews George Gilder on his new book Knowledge and Power (HT: AOI Observer). The long Q&A, titled “George Gilder Has A Very Big, Economy Boosting Idea” is very much...
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What is Innovation?
“Most CEOs now spray the word ‘innovation’ as if it were an air freshener,” says Dennis Berman in the Wall Street Journal, “A little spritz can’t hurt.” A prime example, notes Berman, is what Kellogg’s...
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How IKEA and Innovation Help Refugees in Iraq
When looking for solutions to humanity’s problems, conservatives and libertarians tend to prefer turning first to free markets rather than government. The reason for such a preference is often...
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Bitcoin is (Nearly) Dead
Last year I wrote a series of blog posts about what Christians should know about Bitcoin. In response, one astute reader pointed out an odd juxtaposition: my conclusion seemed to imply that Christians...
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How the IRS Killed Bitcoin as a Currency
“For federal tax purposes, virtual currency is treated as property.”With those ten words, the IRS has made it more difficult — if not impossible — for bitcoin and other virtual currencies from gaining...
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