It has become a commonplace to blame central banks for recurrent bubbles and financial crises, recessions, massive wealth inequality and widespread disenchantment with capitalism, and latterly for inflation. But this important new book argues that the enormous intellectual error of which central banks have been guilty sprang from the generation-long arrogance of the mainstream academic macroeconomics profession, which ignored interwar lessons and the crucial importance of intertemporal dis...

Portraits of Piety: The Lives, Legacies and Writings of Saints gathers forty books into a capacious archive of Christian sanctity, tracing devotion through biography, theology, meditation, apologetic, historical study, and literary portraiture. Patristic argument, medieval mysticism, Reformation controversy, hagiographic narrative, and modern reflection coexist here, revealing sainthood as both an inherited ideal and a contested cultural language. Particularly compelling is the volume's mo...