Christian Economists

Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, discusses his candidate’s position on the economy. FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: for​a.tv The New Republic on FORA.tv: fora.tv —– Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is Director of the Hamilton Project. Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University and a BS in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC and NPR.

This is the full debate in high quality between Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Jamal Badawi at the University of Illinois from 1997. Dr. William Lane Craig: Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Birmingham, England D. Theol. Theology, Universität München, Germany Dr. Jamal Badawi: Ph.D. Economics, Indiana University, United States ……………………………….THE DEBATE……………………………. . THE CONCEPT OF GOD IN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY OPENING STATEMENTS: 20 minutes Part 1-3: Dr. Craig’s Opening Remarks Part 4-6: Dr. Badawi’s Opening Remarks REBUTTALS: 12 minutes Part 7: Dr. Craig Responds Part 8: Dr. Craig concludes/Dr. Badawi begins Response Part 9: Dr. Badawi Concludes Response CLOSING REMARKS: 5 minutes Part 10: Dr. Craig’s Closing Comments Part 11: Dr. Badawi’s Closing Comments

Who’s to blame for the global financial crisis? Building contractors who financed their activities on credit without knowing how they were going to pay their debts? Or bankers, who lent them money and then passed on toxic debts without a qualm? Or is it executive boards and politicians, who saw the whole thing coming and opted to close their eyes, grit their teeth and hope it would all go away?Why did everyone involved behave as irrationally as they did? Scientists working in the relatively novel discipline of neuroeconomics are taking a closer look at homo oeconomicus. Economists and neurologists are cooperating to see what they find. Neurologist Christian Elger and his colleagues are, for example, monitoring subjects’ brain waves as they make economic decisions. In one experiment, they have two test subjects solve the same problem, but award them differently for their efforts. Tomorrow Today joins the researchers to see what effect that inequality has on the subjects’ brain waves, and discovers that human beings are less rational than economists have previously postulated.