Charles Murray is no theologian. He is a brilliant and
perceptive social scientist. And, as such, he has examined a colossal amount of
data and come to some very challenging conclusions. He observes relationships
between behaviours and outcomes and can back them up with very impressive
statistics.
He observes that “successful” people – not necessarily rich
people, but people who perceive themselves to be living worthwhile lives –
abide by conventional, conservative, traditional behaviours.
He wishes that they would preach what they practise. They
invest in Faith, Family, Community and Work.
Arthur C Brooks is an economist and a Catholic. He has a lot
to say about Free Markets and Morality. They both work for The American
Enterprise Institute. ACB is the president.
The USA is hugely blessed with organisations like AEI: The
Mises Institute, The Cato Institute, The Acton Institute, all standing up for
free markets and stressing the role of morality in political and economic
affairs. Check them out. To be fair to us Brits, we have The Adam Smith
Institute and a few others – more later perhaps.
Here is a clip featuring wise words from Charles Murray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SylNtaRw1mk
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