Author: Paul Oslington (Paul Oslington)

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Paul Oslington

Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College, the national college of the Pentecostal movement in Australia. Previously he was Professor of Economics at Australian Catholic University. In 2020 he is in Princeton as a resident member of the Center of Theological Inquiry. His PhD in Economics was completed at the University of Sydney, and Doctor of Theology through University of Divinity, Melbourne. Publications include the books The Theory of International Trade and Unemployment, Adam Smith as Theologian, Oxford Handbook of Economics and Christianity, Political Economy as Natural Theology: Smith Malthus and their Followers, and current projects include the economics and theology of inequality, and a monograph commissioned by Harvard University Press God and Economic Order.

Web: https://www.ac.edu.au/faculty-and-staff/paul-oslington/

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July 28, 2020July 31, 2020Economics, Philosophy, Religion

Why Are Philosophers and Theologians So Hostile to Economics?

By Paul Oslington

Bad writing by philosophers and theologians about economics is a moral issue. If their views about economics are taken seriously—as they often are in churches and in policy advocacy—they threaten the life-changing effects of free markets for the poor across the world.

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