self-interest

On Rand and Altruism: A Defense of Christian Self-Interest

Christian Ethics

Ayn Rand, the founder and sole source of the philosophy called Objectivism, taught an ethical system based on the principle of “rational self-interest” - defined as aiming at the fulfillment ...

The System Built on Greed

Economics

Guest post by C. Jay Engel of the Reformed Libertarian. The anti-free market proclamations from the left (and even sometimes the right) come in all shapes and sizes.  Among the ...

Why Government Fails – Public Choice for Everyone

Politics

There are innumerable arguments about the legitimacy and morality of government and its proper scope, all of which are worth exploring.  Public Choice Theory examines an entirely different question than ...

Don’t Tread On Who?

Libertarianism

Critics of libertarianism often charge that it is a “selfish ideology,” or that any explanation of self-interest is just a warmed-over excuse for selfish behavior. While it is indeed possible ...

Reconciling Rand and Jesus

Christian Worldview

There have been a number of articles lately about the apparent contradictions among small-government supporters who claim Ayn Rand as a hero and who are also religious. This is supposed ...

Politicians are self-interested too (and probably more than you are)

Economics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Does the nature ...

Economic Theory, Self-Interest, and the Bible

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Economic theory tells ...

Moral Busybodies

Economics

This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d repost it. —- “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for ...

Squirrels and Spontaneous Order

President's Blog

If I were designing a world, and I had a moment of sheer genius and came upon the idea of something as magnificent as a forest of great trees, I ...

Atlas Shrugged: The Official LCC Movie Review

Media

I read Atlas Shrugged about three years ago. There is nothing in the movie not in the book, and the stuff that is skipped is obviously skipped for the sake ...

The Nobility of the Bourgeoisie

Economics

By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business sector of our society we’d direct him first of all ...

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