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Bruce Webb

Dr. Bruce Webb is Professor of Economics and Business at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. He and his wife Susan are parishioners at the Church of the Advent (Anglican/Episcopal) in Boston. He recently stepped down from the position of co-editor of Faith & Economics (published by the Association of Christian Economists), which he held for 17 years. He has absolutely no hobbies.

Pro-Market or Pro-Business?

Have we lost faith in the market economy? Much turns on the answer to this question.

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Bruce Webb Oct 2, 2009

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Building an Economy of Communion

Forget regulation. Is there no way to change the business mindset itself, so that profit is not seen as an end in itself, but as a means to address social needs? Pope Benedict XVI thinks that there is.

Bruce Webb Jun 12, 2009

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Thoughts on executive pay and income inequality

Does an economic system that bases compensation on productivity, leading to a huge income gap, meet the test of basic fairness and justice? Or are we seeing—like the Boston Red Sox destroying a local Little League team—unfair and predetermined outcomes?

Bruce Webb Apr 9, 2009

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Good lessons in hard times

Those who lived through the Great Depression were profoundly changed by their experience. We would do well to consider what lessons we can learn now, and how we might change from these experiences.