“And because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.”                                   ~ Acts 18:3 (NIV) The free enterprise system enables all of us to pursue our own…

What do marketers mean by saying we are entering the SHARE ECONOMY?  We have successfully (or not so successfully) moved to a SERVICE ECONOMY, but what is next?  America has been transformed…

“The hardworking farmer must be the first to partake of the crops.” ~ 2 Timothy 2:6 (New King James Version) The next time you purchase a bag of potato chips from the…

Scripture: Psalm 24:1, 100:3; Luke 6:38; Rom. 14:12; 1 Cor. 4:2; Col. 1:16; Eph. 6:7 One of the first statements in most economics textbooks is that incentives are important for understanding behavior.…

By the law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly…

“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers.  It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”    …

Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem—how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which…

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 12:15 In the 1987 movie “Wall Street,” actor Michael Douglas, known as Gordon Gecko in his movie role, made the following impassioned plea for change before the mythical…

“Every man lives by exchanging.”                                                – Adam Smith[1] University…

Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produced a report on the “Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers” for 2014. Of all 77.2 million hourly workers, less than one in twenty-five earns the…