Watch Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston talk about the vices and virtues of market societies and what Jewish tradition has to say about the economy and our human inclinations.
Economy
February 10, 2009: William Galston on Markets and Morality
February 10, 2009: William McGurn on Markets and Morality
Watch William McGurn, a vice president at News Corporation, talk about Wall Street, wealth, Catholic teaching, and the market economy.
December 31, 2008: Look Ahead 2009
Kim Lawton, E.J. Dionne, and John Allen join Bob Abernethy to discuss religion news in the year to come.
December 26, 2008: Churches and the Foreclosure Crisis
You feel the sense of rejection that is very real for people nowadays losing their home, not finding the shelter they want, not finding acceptance, feeling rejected by human beings or by God, by institutions.
November 28, 2008: World Hunger and U.S. Aid
As President-elect Barack Obama put his economic team together this week, there were more signs of the magnitude of the financial crisis across the globe.
Kim Lawton: Faith Groups and the Foreclosure Crisis
Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton says faith-based community activists are talking with the Obama administration transition team about how the government can do more to stop preventable foreclosures.
October 10, 2008: Theology and Economy
The recent economic debacle should cause us to reread, or perhaps read for the first time, the Christian theological tradition and how it inextricably relates economic exchange to morality (our quest for the good) and to God.
September 26, 2008: America’s Economic Crisis
Now, the financial crisis and proposals to solve it. What do religious voices have to say?
September 19, 2008: Wall Street Ethics
We explore the ethical issues underlying the financial meltdown with Rebecca Blank, an economist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of the book "Is the Market Moral?"
For the millions of American stockholders, among them many faith groups, there is conventional investing and there is so-called socially responsible investing.










