Does this mean that Dubya needed Olavsky to popularize Beisner?
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Subject: Re: Fw: Citizens on the Web: Philosophical pearls from George Bush
Jr.
> Here's something that can't be attributed to either Quayle or Dubya. It is
> by the "economic" thinker, E. Calvin Beisner, behind Dubya's
> "compassionate conservatism" guru, Marvin Olasky. Read 'em & weep,
> sinners.
>
> Economics and the Image of God in Man
>
> Economics will be rescued from the malaise of socialism,
> bureaucratism, and econometrics only when its roots as applied moral
> philosophy are restored. Adam Smith, after all, was first a moral
> philosopher, and The Wealth of Nations (1776) was largely an empirical
> demonstration of claims he made about economic relationships based on
> his moral philosophy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). The
> center of economics' root system consists of our understanding of the
> nature of man and of sin, justice, and grace.
>
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