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Economics and Global Capitalism
  
  I hope to have much more to say about our economic system over the coming months, but I've posted a little bit below to get a sense of the direction I'm heading.  
Review              
  This is a review and description of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which I consider to be the most important book I've read in a number of years.  
Sermon    
  Kindom Economics (since nobody else has, please note the play on words) is a sermon from February 2007 to my own Eighth Day faith community, in which I try to begin a conversation between capitalism and Scripture. It seems clear that our current economics is leading us in directions very few of us want to go regarding poverty, inequality, the quality of work, and the environment. But we don't seem to know how to change courses. I'm coming to believe that both Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament offer us some important guidelines.  

Lectures

              
  The Limits of Capitalism is a lecture I gave on the limits of capitalism to our class at our church's Servant Leadership School that was a conversation between the Gospel and capitalism. It's a beginning look at some of the inherent limitations of capitalism in dealing with some of our most important problems.