Economics and Antagonisms
回应布拉德·贝特曼的演讲，指出亚当·斯密对经济学的贡献比许多将其视为功利主义者的解释者所认为的更为微妙，并论证现代经济学因时间商品化而与基督教形成对立。
In this brief response to Brad Bateman's address I suggest that Adam Smith's contribution to “economics” is more nuanced than many of his interpreters suggest when they characterize him as a utilitarian. Rather what Smith provided was an intellectual expression of “economics” as an independent sphere that had already been created through developments such as the commoditization of time. The result of such commoditization is that modern economics becomes antagonistic to Christianity as it reframes human interaction within a system of exchange that ensures time is money. For Christians, time is given – not owned.