Book Review

Alexander William Salter. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. ISBN: 9780813236810. $24.95 (paperback).             Distributism is a school of Christian economic thought developed most fully by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in the late 1800’s and the…

Dominic Roser, Stefan Riedener, and Markus Huppenbauer (eds). 2022. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-38487-8119-5. $23.00 (Paperback). Effective Altruism (EA) is a set of philosophical ideas and a social movement that advocates using reason and evidence to find ways to do…

D. Glenn Butner Jr. 2024. Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-5064-7941-5. $49.00 (Hardback). It is not every day that one reads a book looking at the relationship between theology and economics that starts with an examination of experimental economics and…

Research Ethics in Applied Economics: A Practical GuideAnna Josephson and Jeffrey D. Michler. 2024. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-036-74-57419. $55.99 (Paperback). Economics and theology have always gone together for me. My story is unique: my formal study of economics began in…

The Economics of Religion. Edited by Robert M. Sauer, 2023. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-12-7313-1. $128.00 (Hardback). In his 2009 plenary address to the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Christian Economists, Laurence Iannaccone defined the economics…

Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity Joerg Rieger. 2022. Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-150-64-31581. $22.00 (Paperback). I originally got into the field of theology because I wanted to pursue the “eternal” and “timeless” instead of selling…