Jay W. Richards

Jay Richards is a research fellow and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. He is the author of several books and is regular contributor to National Review Online and Touchstone. His work has been covered by national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Nature. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Larry King Live and The Dennis Prager Show, and has lectured on economic myths to members of the US Congress.

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Politics and Religion

Money, Greed, and God

Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

Talking Points

Jay Richards is a research fellow and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. He is the author of several books and is regular contributor to National Review Online and Touchstone. His work has been covered by national publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Nature. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Larry King Live and The Dennis Prager Show, and has lectured on economic myths to members of the US Congress.

Description

Christianity generally sees capitalism as either bad because it causes much of the world’s suffering, or good because God wants you to prosper and be rich. But there is a large, growing audience of evangelical and mainline Christians who are deeply uneasy about how to follow Jesus’s mandate to care for the poor and the environment while living with the excesses of capitalism.

Now, a noted Christian scholar argues that there is a middle view that reveals Christianity cannot only accommodate capitalism, but Christian theology can help explain why capitalism works. By highlighting the most common myths committed by Christians when thinking about economics, such as “capitalism is based on greed and over consumption” or “if someone becomes rich that automatically means someone else will become poor,” Money, Greed, and God equips readers to take practical steps in their own lives to conduct business, worship God, and serve others without falling into the “prosperity gospel” trap.

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