The Relationship Between Religious Conservatives and Business Conservatives

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i think it was through the work of graham and buckley that these two movements came together. And in effect, they've been together ever since. i did aebody thatlauin, i'm ten years behind you. I'm 66. So you you had that as well. Wan level. Its almost laughable to day, the whole notion that if somebody sets off a nuclear weapon near by, youare going to accomplish anything by hiding under a wooden desk. But it just shows what the mood of the time was.

In episode 162 of The Michael Shermer Show, Michael speaks with one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, Benjamin Friedman, about his new book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism — a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force — religion.

Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets — among economists as well as many ordinary citizens — is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a deeper, more historically grounded sense there is something to that idea. Contrary to the conventional historical view of economics as an entirely secular product of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Friedman demonstrates that religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset.