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Muslim Women and Entrepreneurship
One might think that Muslim women, in traditionally Muslim countries, are under severe constrictions when it comes to becoming entrepreneurs. After all, in Saudi Arabia, women cannot drive, and in...
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Call of the Entrepreneur Showing on BIZ TV Tonight and Sunday
Acton is delighted to announce that BIZ TV will be presenting The Call of the Entrepreneur, Today, July 22 at 5:00 pm EST and Sunday, July 24 at 7:00 pm EST in the following cities: Read more on Call...
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Solyndra and the False Hope of Green Jobs
In this week’s Acton Commentary, “Solyndra and the False Hope of Green Jobs” I look at the original problem with federally funded Green Jobs. The Solyndra debacle has been called a “microcosm of...
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Commentary: Despite Economic and Social Ills, Blacks Give Obama a Pass
In his commentary this week, Acton Research Fellow Anthony Bradley looks at the phenomenon of a black president whose policies have “not led to significant progress for blacks.” Bradley is the author...
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Can Business Make You Holy?
Andreas Widmer, entrepreneur, former Swiss guard, and contributor to PovertyCure, has published an article at First Things, titled “Can Business Save Your Soul?” It is Widmer’s take on the statement...
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Metaphysical Business
Work is at the core of our humanity, says Anthony Esolen, and our ownership of what we produce precedes laws demanding that we give it back to “community” in the abstract. Read more on Metaphysical...
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Must See Film for Entrepreneurs? ‘The Call of the Entrepreneur’
Entrepreneurs, in the words of Andreas Widmer, co-founder of The SEVEN Fund, are people who see “an additional color. Everybody sees chaos; they look out, they see chaos. An entrepreneur sees...
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The Election’s Biggest Losers
Mitt Romney may have lost to Barack Obama but his was not the biggest loss of the election—at least not economically. Despite the millions the GOP spent to elect their candidate, the real economic...
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Bringing Spirituality to ‘One of the Sleaziest Industries in the World’
Over at Christianity Today, HOPE International’s Chris Horst, whose article on a Christian manufacturer was recently highlighted at the PowerBlog, focuses on yet another Christian business, this time...
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PovertyCure: Lasting Solutions to Poverty
PovertyCure was featured in Forbes Magazine last week. Alex Chafuen, one of Acton’s founding board members, featured PovertyCure in his article on champions of innovation. He writes: A new multifaceted...
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5 TV Shows That Demonstrate the Importance of Ordinary Work
Television is often lamented for its propensity to exaggerate the mundane and the ordinary. Yet when it comes to something as routinely downplayed and unfairly pooh-poohed as our daily work—the “rat...
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Cash for Young Entrepreneurs
The Hitachi Foundation is accepting applications for its 2013 Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneur Award, which identifies up to five young people striving to build a “sustainable businesses” in the United...
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Desperate Entrepreneur Atop St. Peter’s Pleads to Pope
What a sweet spectacle it is to observe Rome’s pastel-colored cityscape and glowing white marble churches from above St. Peter’s Basilica just before sunset. But this is not what one Italian...
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Study: Entrepreneurs Pray More Frequently Than Non-Entrepreneurs
About a decade ago I joined a couple of other semi-clueless entrepreneurs in starting a regional newspaper in East Texas. Although I had always been a praying man, I found a lot more to pray about...
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What Do Entrepreneurs Pray About?
“How is religion related to entrepreneurial behavior?” As Joe Carter pointed out last week, a new study by Baylor University sought to examine this very question. Focusing specifically on American...
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Training Them Up In The Way They Should Go: Entrepreneurial Education
Entrepreneurs aren’t just born. Like any other endeavor, there are natural talents involved, but building a business takes an incredible amount of work and knowledge. It’s one thing to have an idea;...
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Bono Affirms That Capitalism Alleviates Poverty More Than Aid
In the world of celebrity-do-gooders, Bono has earned the reputation of being more than a mouthpiece. Over two decades, the musician has created the ONE campaign, worked with Amnesty International,...
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How Did You Know You Wanted An iPhone?
Did you wake up one morning and think, “I wish I had a phone that would not only allow me to text and call, but play games, get directions, read books, allow me access to all social media and take...
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Deneen and Creative Destruction
Among many other bizarre claims in his most recent article at The American Conservative, Patrick Deneen writes,Today’s conservatives are liberals — they favor an economy that wreaks “creative...
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Gospel Entrepreneurs
In his new book, Risky Gospel, Owen Strachan calls Christians to an active life filled with faith and risk, cautioning us away from complacency and comfortability, whether in our churches, jobs,...
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