Environmentalism has many of the features of a religion – sacred sites (wilderness areas), saints (Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson), rules for living (recycling), days of celebration (Earth Day), ascetic requirements (curb energy use), dietary limitations (organic food), indulgences (carbon...

Abstract – This article offers a brief historical overview of the rise and growing social significance of homeowners associations in the United States. With the spread of business corporations in the late nineteenth century, private ownership of American business property increasingly became...

The success of an economic system depends on its having a strong basis of legitimacy in society. For much of the twentieth century, the legitimacy of "American capitalism" was based on the public belief that it would most rapidly and successfully advance the economic progress of the American...

The most influential religions in the public arena of the modern age have been secular religions such as Marxism, the American progressive “gospel of efficiency,” and more recently environmentalism. Environmentalism is a revealing exception but modern secular religions have typically been...

Among the important factors in the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 was an large ethical breakdown in the financial sector that preceded it. The sources of good behavior are multiple but religion ranks high among them. In thinking about the role of religion, most people think first of Judaism,...

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Max Stackhouse -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- Part: ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- One: Tenets of Economic Faith -- Two: A Secular Great Awakening...

Compared to other urban redevelopment approaches, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) - special geographically defined zones that are authorized to collect taxes from their members and then manage those revenues to serve a variety of purposes - have had relative uncontreversial success. Since...

Although most people probably have not heard of them, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have proliferated across the globe. Geographically defined zones authorized to collect taxes from businesses within their boundaries, BIDs have significantly changed urban governance and revived business...

During the 1970s, Congress created a new statutory foundation for public land management by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The stated goal was to establish a rational administrative process for resolving the demands of competing users. Economists argued that public land...