The Pope and the Economist In this newly translated and revised book Father Jacek Gniadek, SVD, develops a unique synthesis of the Thought of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and Pope John Paul II.
Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center.
George Weigel Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann Professor of Economics at the University of Angers and Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute An intriguing contribution to John Paul II studies that will shock some and enlighten many.
Mandatory reading for all students and teachers of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
The Pope and the Economist should be read by all Catholics and all economists.
The result can only be called eye-opening.
Gniadek makes his case by studying and comparing the ideas of John Paul II and Ludwig von Mises.
In the present book, Dr.
There is at least one school of economic thought-Austrian economics-which can be integrated into the larger edifice of Catholic theology and anthropology.
He has concluded that economics is not irretrievably lost.
Jacek Gniadek, a doctor of moral theology, has given much Thought to this question.
Is there any other way to connect the theories of marginal utility, of money, of market prices, and of capital accumulation with the freedom of wretched sinners, with the realities of family and community, with gifts and sacrifice? Fr.
The models of perfect markets inhabited by homines oeconomici seem to be a slippery slope into materialism and reductionism.
Mainstream economics does not fit well with Catholic doctrine.
This theological and moral analysis of the logic of Human Action informed by a theological vision of the acting person establishes the fundamental social nature of entrepreneurship, private ownership, and the market economy and defines the proper role of both market and state as well as morality and economics.
The Pope and the Economist In this newly translated and revised book Father Jacek Gniadek, SVD, develops a unique synthesis of the Thought of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and Pope John Paul II
