Article July 19, 1982 Issue

A new concept of economics

MARGARET LOUISE THOREN

In simplest terms, economics has to do with meeting the most basic human needs. We generally think of these practical needs— food, housing, clothing—and the forces that work to produce them, in material terms.

Confronted with rampaging inflation, unequal distribution of world resources, disruption, and fear, the world obviously needs a concept of economics that goes deeper than material hypothesis.

Over one hundred years ago Christian Science's Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, spoke of the worldwide appearance of famine and disease. Her spiritual insight detected such distress as the uncovering and self-destruction of material-mindedness through the leavening action of Truth.^{See Science and Health, p. 96 .}

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