Ultimately, the ability of seekers to draw on their faith so that they can creatively withstand the moral tensions posed by work appears to have four important outcomes: At the societal level, it can often keep at bay the more predatory aspects of advanced capitalism. At the economic level, it stimulates value creation. [...] Laura Nash

"The mechanical clock," as Lewis Mumford wrote, "made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product." In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible. The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money.[...]" Neil Postman

"The world continues its impetuous run into financialization, a process that assigns a monetary value or transaction to an ever greater share of human activities. Human activity is being captured progressively in financial form. Probably as much as 60-80% of human activity in the Western world is already counted or logged through a financial transaction. Distinguished over the past two centuries, that represents at least a tripling of the role of money. Ron J. Bigalke, Jr., General Editor