Anthony Waterman is Fellow of St John's College, Winnipeg and Professor Emeritus of Economics in the University of Manitoba. His most recent book is Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). In 2007 he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society (USA).

Articles By A. M. C. Waterman

Fundamentalism in Religion, Politics and Science

by A. M. C. Waterman on June 19, 2009

The word ‘fundamentalism’ has traveled a long way since it began life in California nearly a hundred years ago. At first it was a defence of what were seen as the ‘fundamental’ beliefs of American Protestants. The literal truth of the Bible, the creation of the world by God, miracles in the Old and New Testaments, and the central miracles of the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Christ had been called into question by Darwinian Evolution, by scientific naturalism more generally, and by the so-called ‘higher criticism’ of the Bible by German theologians.

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Sorting Through Keynesian Rubble

by A. M. C. Waterman on July 22, 2009

Should governments run deficits to pay for ‘stimulus packages’? ‘Of course!’ say many Democrats, liberals, socialists and others who flatter themselves that they are ‘progressive’. ‘Heaven forbid!’ say many Republicans, libertarians and others in the USA and Canada who like to think of themselves, quite wrongly in some cases, as ‘conservative’. On occasion, these opinions, whether ‘left’ or ‘right’, may rest on some understanding of how a market economy works. But all too often, it seems, they are mere gut reactions—nothing but the result of prejudice and ideological bias.

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