Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

We're here today for part two of a very stimulating conversation with my good friend

Dr. Brent Waters, Brent is a Stead professor of Christian ethics at Garrett Evangelical

Seminary in Evanston, Illinois and the director of the Sted Center for Ethics and

Values at that same institution. We're here talking about his recently

released book Just Capitalism. It's a different for a different foray, Brent, for you from bioethics into more the intersection of theology and economics.

But I think a very profitable foray. We left off last time by your big idea of the book is for a

big idea of the book is that market exchange is a necessary but not sufficient

condition for full human flourishing.

And we got to the necessary part,

barely got to the sufficient part,

so I want to focus a little bit on that.

But to summarize, say a little bit

about just the general value of market exchange and how you communicate

that to your students.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, the basic value of market exchange is that it helps us to simply more than survive and to flourish because as

Adam Smith recognized we all have to be specialized otherwise if we try to do

everything on our own our lives are going to be fairly miserable another way way to say, if you really want to live well,

get other people to do your work.

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