Ancient Trade and Commerce
John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England in 1883, to a privileged elitist academic family. Keynes became an influential economist and he is best known for his economic theories on the causes of prolonged unemployment, and for his most influential work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which was first published in … Read more
Walter Bagehot was a mid-Victorian era journalist in Britain who married the eldest daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist magazine. When Mr. Wilson died in 1860, Walter became the editor in chief of The Economist. Over the next 17 years that he held that position, he transformed the journal into one of … Read more
During the 18th century, the higher efficiency of the nascent factory system made the previously revolutionary cottage industry production system less efficient and therefore newly uncompetitive. As a result the cottage industry system lost its commercial viability and gradually began to fail economically. The combination of the decline of cottage industries and the rise of … Read more
A Christian world view is a “God’s eye” view of the world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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