What Would Jesus Spend

by Will Wilkinson on October 25, 2004

I had missed Deidre McCloskey’s great little essay in the WSJ. Take a look, if you haven’t seen it. Like everything our favorite gender-bending economic historian writes, it’s worth reading.

Anonymous

Compare the Lord's Prayer requesting merely our daily bread with the Hindu prayer to Durga the Mother Goddess: "Give me wealth, long life, sons and all things desirable."

Here's to mind-numbing oversimplification.