One of the most enduring critiques of capitalism is that it is morally and culturally corrosive. This is a complex topic, in part because there are many definitions and demarcations of both capitalism and culture and the political Left and Right are both concerned about this topic, for different reasons. We take a look with Michael Matheson Miller.
Recommended readings from Michael
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
John Paul II: Centesimuss Annus
Joel Salatin: Folks This Ain’t Normal and Everything I Want to Do is Illegal
Juliet Schor: Born to Buy
Wilhelm Ropke: A Humane Economy
Christopher Dawson: Progress and Religion
Robert Nisbet: The Quest for Community
Mathew Crawford: Shopcraft as Soulcraft
Taylor Cowen: Creative Destruction
Guest Info
Michael Matheson Miller is Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute. He is the Director and Producer of the award-winning documentary, Poverty, Inc. the PovertyCure DVD Series, and The Good Society Series, and was the founding director of PovertyCure, which promotes entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the developing world. He writes and speaks extensively on the intersection between moral philosophy and theology and economics, poverty, entrepreneurship, and culture.
He is the host of the Moral Imagination Podcast and a Distinguished Fellow at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, and the author of Digital Contagion and the forthcoming Excluded: How Global Humanitarianism Excludes the Poor from Justice and Prosperity from Crossroad/Herder & Herder. Before coming to Acton he taught philosophy and political science at Ave Maria College in Nicaragua and was the chair of the philosophy and theology department. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and has graduate degrees from Nagoya University’s Graduate School of International Development (Japan), Franciscan University, and an M.B.A. from Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Business. He serves on the boards of the Sacred Heart Classical Academy, and the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.
