“Living La Vida Justicia: Pope Francis and ‘Liberation Theology'”
Read a March 17, 2013, post on Liberation Theology on the website of America magazine by the Rev. Daniel Horan.
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“Francis, the Jesuits and the Dirty War”
Read a March 17, 2013, essay written by the Rev. Thomas Reese for the National Catholic Reporter.
“Theology Has Consequences: What Policies Will Pope Francis Champion?”
Read a March 18, 2013, essay by feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt about Pope Francis and the liberation theology debate.
“In the war on the poor, Pope Francis is on the wrong side”
Read a March 18, 2013, column by George Monbiot for The Guardian about the debate on liberation theology.
“As Cardinal, New Pope Walked Fine Line On Economic Issues”
Read a March 25, 2013, NPR story that examines Francis’ record on economic issues before he became pope.
“The Fat Epidemic”
Read a series of articles on obesity published by The New York Times in 2000.
“Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates”
A 2009 survey found that medical costs associated with obesity were $147 billion–up from $75 billion in 2003.
Theodore C. Bergstrom
Theodore C. Bergstrom holds the Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics in the economics department at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Calif., and is the author of On the Economics of Polygyny (University of Michigan, 1994), which is available online.
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