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Can Baby Bonds Adress Historic Racial Injustice?

This paper was prepared for the ASE Sessions at the 2021 ASSA annual meetings. Abstract: The injustices that have been visited upon African Americans in the United States have a substantial economic legacy. The wealth gap between African American and White citizens is just one…

Steven C. McMullenDecember 31, 2020

Ethics General Economics Poverty and Inequality Theology

Capitalism, Opportunity, the Welfare State, and Virtue

Does capitalism undermine virtue and community? Or does it reinforce virtuous behavior? Does capitalism require a virtuous population, or does it succeed because it assumes the worst about people? I have been thinking about these questions throughout my career, and occasionally written about them (here,…

Steven C. McMullenOctober 26, 2020

Ethics General Economics Theology

Stewardship as an Environmental and Economic Ethic

This post was written for the Christian Scholar's Review blog. One of the most powerful metaphors in Christian social thought is the idea of stewardship. It comes right out of Genesis, with the idea that God gives humans a job to do on earth, and…

Steven C. McMullenOctober 14, 2020

Book Reviews Ethics General Economics

Review of Why Liberalism Failed

This review appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Faith & Economics, and you can get a typeset PDF version there. If you are interested in the conversation about this book, you can also check out the response I wrote up to the book upon…

Steven C. McMullenSeptember 16, 2020

Ethics General Economics Theology

What Does Christianity have to do with Economics? Three Approaches

This post was written for, and originally posted on, the Christian Scholar's Review Blog, available here. Since most faculty are trained in thoroughly secular universities and disciplines, it can take some work to figure out what difference Christian faith can have in the practice of…

Steven C. McMullenSeptember 11, 2020

Book Reviews Ethics

Review of Why Does Inequality Matter? By T. M. Scanlon

A shorter version of this review appeared in the journal Poverty and Public Policy. (Here is an ungated PDF). T. M. Scanlon has established himself as one of the most important contemporary scholars of distributive justice, and so his publication of Why Does Inequality Matter…

Steven C. McMullenAugust 11, 2020

Articles & Essays Ethics General Economics

COVID-19 and Economic Calculation

This is the editor's introduction to the Spring 2020 issue of Faith & Economics. The journal's copyright policy allows me to post it here, but if you want to reference or share my writing, refer back to the journal. PDF on Faith & Economics website.…

Steven C. McMullenJuly 10, 2020

Book Reviews Ethics

Review of: Beyond Stewardship

This review appears here in the Spring 2020 issue of Faith & Economics. Their copyright agreement lets me post the full review here, but if you want to share this, please reference it back to the journal. PDF on the Faith & Economics website. A…

Steven C. McMullenJuly 10, 2020

Ethics General Economics

Letter: Welcome Refugees into Ottawa County

In anticipation of the vote by the Ottawa County Commission regarding the resettlement of refugees, I wrote this letter. Because this same debate is happening in counties all over the country, I share it here publicly. Dear Commissioners, In the coming week, you will all…

Steven C. McMullenJanuary 26, 2020

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Can Baby Bonds Adress Historic Racial Injustice?

Capitalism, Opportunity, the Welfare State, and Virtue

Stewardship as an Environmental and Economic Ethic

Review of Why Liberalism Failed

What Does Christianity have to do with Economics? Three Approaches

Review of Why Does Inequality Matter? By T. M. Scanlon

COVID-19 and Economic Calculation

Review of: Beyond Stewardship

Letter: Welcome Refugees into Ottawa County

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