Erik Matson
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Gibbons Fellow in Economics at The Catholic University of America | Co-Director, Adam Smith Program at George Mason University
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Some reflections from the classroom motivate my most recent piece @TheFreemanMag . Many of us are interested in justice, in improving the world. But before we can improve, we must work to understand.
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thefreemanmag.substack.com Can You Make the World a Better Place? Let Us First Approach the World’s Problems as Students, Not as Judges I am giving a public lecture at the @ActonInstitute in a few weeks: "Virtue as the Wealth of Nations." If you are in Grand Rapids, please join. If not, you can view online at this link: acton.swoogo.com/Matson-2026
Thanks to Alex Salter for generously reviewing my recent book project with @JordanBallor , and thanks to @ActonInstitute for publishing the review!
Alexander Salter: "Jordan Ballor and Erik Matson deserve our gratitude. Their two-volume work, one an edited volume of excerpted sources and the other an original intellectual history, will become standard reference works for all scholars working on Christian political economy. Although it focuses on what we might call Western Christendom, it transcends confessional differences.View quoted post on X
The books pair very well. I cannot think of an instance where it would be more profitable to read them apart than together. And they are versatile. The volumes can serve just as well as assigned texts in undergraduate survey courses or research manuals for practicing scholars."
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A few thoughts from @JordanBallor and me on AI and the meaning of work
"It is with those 'who work especially with their mind' that the development of AI technologies brings into sharper focus the dangers and opportunities for tools to either degrade or enhance human dignity as expressed in work."View quoted post on X
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