Recent Articles
MAR 21, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Building The Village Education Project
After teaching elementary school for ten weeks in a small village in rural Ecuador, I came away from the experience with a lot more than ...
MAR 20, 2007 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Christopher Tyerman, "God's War: A New History of the Crusades"
Tyerman lays out the New Testament tradition at the beginning of his treatise on the Crusades, raising the immediate question: how did Crusaders manage to ...
MAR 19, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Want to Expand the Middle Class? Improve Low-Wage Jobs
Progressives aren't alone in worrying about the widening income gap these days. Even Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke expresses concern. Much of the focus has ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Argentina, the Church, and the Debt
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Risks of Lending and Liability to Others
This essay analyzes why risk and liability are necessary mechanisms of well-functioning markets, and discusses how risk can be handled. In the U.S., inappropriate ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief
The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is the largest multilateral effort aimed at providing debt relief. this essay, we address the question of whether ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
The Due Diligence Model: A New Approach to the Problem of Odious Debts
Odious debts are debts incurred by a government without either popular consent or a legitimate public purpose. There is a debate within academic circles as ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics
Modified rules for the accumulation and discharge of international sovereign debt can codify the moral and legal basis for existing ad hoc deviations and present ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Introduction: The Players and the Game of Sovereign Debt
This essay characterizes the main actors and how they operate during a buildup of government foreign debt.