The Market As the Capitalist Demiurge
The beneficial efficiency that market competition can sometimes produce is in no way a substitute for intelligent concern for the common good.
Catholics and Libertarian Economics: A Reply to Samuel Gregg
Gregg frames the conflict between Pope Francis and libertarian thought, whereas it is really a conflict between Catholic teaching and libertarian thought.
Alternatives to the Jungle
We have gone a fair way backwards since the last century, when governments pursued strategies that owed much to Catholic economic teachings.
The Forgotten Agrarian
It is not so much a matter of Adam Smith “defending” capitalism as it is of capitalists appropriating Smith, and often against his expressed wishes.
Economic Efficiency & Human Good
Almost the entire field of economics is dominated by the idea of scarcity and the resulting mandate for economic efficiency.
Errors of Libertarian Economics
The doctrine that any person has an inalienable right to enter into any willingly agreed contract forms the bedrock of libertarian economics.
The Attack On the Family
Every organized attack on sexual morality is an assault on the family, an attempt to sever the bonds between husband and wife or parents and children.
Capitalism As An Unnatural System
For Aristotle, natural exchange was that necessary to provision the household, while unnatural exchange had money alone for its object.
The Case of Adam Smith
Adam Smith’s idea of justifying the ways of God to men, was to tell the men to do unjustifiable things which God would justify.
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
Berry points out that current economics have severed all connection with the real economy, which he calls “The Great Economy.”
The Dialogue Between Veritas and Caritate
There is a dialogic relationship between theology, the Queen of the Sciences, and economics, or indeed every other humane science.