This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, December 1st,

2022. I'm Caleb Brown. Are Christians duty bound to be socialists?

In what faith traditions is that line of thinking most prevalent.

Dider McClosky's forthcoming book, God in Commerce,

takes on the thinking that Christians ought to issue many of these social institutions

that have created such vast wealth over the past two centuries.

We spoke last month.

You have a book that has been sent off.

The title is...

Well, I changed the title yesterday morning.

Once it was called God in Mammon,

and then I decided that's too confusing.

I said, now it's called God in commerce, public theology for an age of inovism.

And so inovism is your is your better word for capitalism. It is. I just really am so

annoyed and and with with the word capitalism not because it it's bad I mean after all Forbes calls

itself Forbes capitalist too and I kind of get it.

But it's scientifically very inaccurate.

Because it suggests to everyone, economists and non-economists, that the way we got rich was piling up bricks or

BAs, capital accumulation, whether physical or human.

And that's not right.

Of course you need it, but it's the ideas, it's the creativity of humans released in the last couple of centuries that have made it

worthwhile to have workers move from one place to another or land get exploited in some way or capital

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