Satan and the economy
My piece Satan, the Great Motivator was in Sunday’s Boston Globe, where it caught some eyeballs (probably fans of the 1943 version of Heaven Can Wait). The Arts & Letters Daily put it up as the top left item, ahead even of this New York Times essay on the evolution of the God gene(sic).Among the sites that linked to the piece:
hell is good for capitalism (interesting discussion in comments).
the economic effects of religion and religious liberty
The economic utility of religion (part of an essay on the Wendell Berry book “Life is A Miracle.”)
Economic development’s surprising secret weapon: applied religion?
the hell effect (includes some pointed reader comments)
It was a fun thing to write. I got to work with the Globe’s Steve Heuser, and I respect and like him even more after working with him than I did before.