The scholar-journalist Lew Daly seems genuinely concerned about the poor, and about middle-class families and communities as well. The increasing precariousness of their positions in American society forms the backstory of his challenging new book. God’s Economy shows how powerful corporations and their wanton abuses have not only devastated families and communities financial (...)
May 21, 2010
Books
Blessing the Beast?
God’s EconomyFaith-based Initiatives and the Caring State Lew DalyUniversity of Chicago Press, $37.50, 318 pp.
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