Dodd-Frank: Repercussions on Community Banks and Local Lending
The circulation of liquidity in an efficient financial system is undoubtedly one of the primary pillars of economic progress. For the ever-changing dynamic of the current United States economy, a well-functioning financial system is fundamentally required for growth....
Business as Usual: Challenges to Entrepreneurship in Mexico
In 2011, Mexico ranked as the hardest working industrialized country in the world; its workers averaged 45 hours per week, an additional 519 hours annually more than the typical American worker. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) conducted in 2014,...
Dr. Stephen Smith Named Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor
Dr. Stephen L. S. Smith, professor of economics at Hope College, has been named the Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor for the 2016–2017 academic year. In this position, Dr. Smith will collaborate with V&C on campus events, project publications, and a number of other initiatives.
Announcing: 2016-2017 Values & Capitalism Young Scholars
Values & Capitalism is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2016-2017 Young Scholar Awards. We received a host of impressive research proposals from talented students across the country. From among those applications the following students were selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship. During the 2016-2017 school year, each Young Scholar will conduct original research on a topic of public policy or economics, with the oversight of a faculty advisor.
2016 Values & Capitalism Summer Honors Program
Over the course of June 2016, Values & Capitalism welcomed 75 Christian college students from 46 different schools to participate in the V&C Summer Honors Program—an intensive, one-week seminar, designed to educate students on various issues of public policy and economics.
2016 Values & Capitalism Summer Conference
During the weekend of June 10-12, over 170 students and professors from 53 colleges and universities gathered in Washington D.C. to engage in a series of conversations about pertinent issues facing our nation today—particularly focusing on how to approach these issues from a Christian worldview.
How America’s Diversity Could Revolutionize Policymaking
America’s diversity should be the source of its solutions for the 21st century. Many err in believing nostalgia or technocracy can unite us. Yet lamenting the present by embracing the past will not prepare us for the future.
Values & Capitalism Spring 2016 Weekend Honors Program: New York City
Entrepreneurship & Human Flourishing The King’s College, New York, New York Friday, April 15 – Saturday, April 16, 2016 The Values & Capitalism Spring 2016 Weekend Honors Program, hosted in partnership with The King’s College in New York City, was an intensive...
Statesmanship vs. Politicking
One of the greatest blessings we have as a nation is a history of a representative democracy in which we can take for granted the fact that we have peaceful transitions of power every four years.
