Dale Pivarunas

Dale Anthony Pivarunas has four degrees in mathematics, theology, business administration, and operations research. He has written a book entitled Christian Economics – the Integration of Capitalism, Socialism and Laborism, published by Wipf and Stock. Christian Economics promotes justice, fairness, balance, cooperation, and mutual respect within business, economics and politics and is based on three principles: good is to be done and promoted and evil is to be avoided; love your neighbor as yourself and the absolute dignity of each and every human being. Christian Economics argues that every business strategy, every business policy and every business transaction need to be based on these three principles. From an economics system point of view, my book integrates capitalism, socialism and laborism eliminating the excesses of each and proposing a system which seeks to maximize economic value and wealth for virtually all people. How is the Christian mandate to love your neighbor as yourself to be applied in business, economics and politics? How does God want people to act within their jobs, their businesses, their business transactions, how they treat employees, how they pay employees, how they treat business subordinates, how they deal with tenants, how they set prices, how they deal with other businesses, what they sell, how they market their products and services, how they advertise, what is the quality and safety of their products and services, etc. Seventy-five percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. And yet, it takes little reflection to realize that there is almost no influence of these basic principles of Christianity on business and economics. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Christians have closed their minds to the inconsistencies between their faith and the philosophies and practices of the business world which falsely claim that business is outside the realm of morals as expressed in the statement ‘it is neither right nor wrong, it is just business’.