Reviews for Economics Today The Micro View

The average rating for Economics Today The Micro View based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-29 00:00:00 Juan Mendiola Just no. It didn't take long for me to get the sense that something was off with this author when early in the book he was quoting scripture and trying marry economic theory with God's law. It very quickly became apparent that despite such a neutral title as Basic Economics, what Carson actually set out to accomplish was spreading his religious right worldview. Here are a few of the quotes that made me lose my appetite for Carson's so-called basic economics. On why people murder: "Remove the sense of awe and mystery which men have before God, in whose image man was created, and who is to say that you do not at the same time remove the awe and mystery which envelops human beings and protects them from one another ordinarily. Thus murder may become widespread, as it has in our day, when a large part of the people no longer believe strongly in a transcendent god. So it is too with morality and virtue in general." On progressive taxation and welfare: "We may assume that those with the higher incomes are the most productive and efficient." "But it would be a mistake to suppose that many government programs billed as aides to the poor actually do aide them. In fact, many of them have not done so. Those who are unemployed need to be finding productive employment, not extensive support in idleness." "In sum, government theft for the redistribution of goods is an uneconomic process, it is unconstitutional for the United States government because government is limited in its taxing power to taxing for the general welfare. Not for the supposed welfare of some class, such as the poor."

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-10 00:00:00 Debra Brunk A clumsy and biased attempt to merge economics with religion. I think a better title would have been "Theocratic Economics."