Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem »

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a contributing editor at The American magazine (american.com) and the Enterprise Blog (blog.american.com) at the American Enterprise Institute. Richards has been featured in the New York Times and The Washington Post, and he has appeared on Larry King Live. He also has lectured on economic myths to members of the U.S. Congress.

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? 1

1 Can't we build a just society? 9

2 What would Jesus do? 33

3 Doesn't capitalism foster unfair competition? 59

4 If I become rich, won't someone else become poor? 83

5 Isn't capitalism based on greed/ 111

6 Hasn't Christianity always opposed capitalism? 135

7 Doesn't capitalism lead to an ugly consumerist culture? 157

8 Are we going to use up all the resources? 183

Conclusion Working all things together for good 209

App Is the "spontaneous order" of the market evidence of a universe without purpose? 217

Acknowledgments 225

Notes 227