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Volume 10, Number 2
Fall 2007

Editorial

257
Leonard Lessius and the Prehistory of Economics

Article

263
John Paul II’s Challenges to the Social Sciences
279
Christian Theology and the Human Ontology of Market Capitalism
299
Should Business Be Responsible for Employee Health Care?
321
Requiem for Homo Economicus
339
Unrighteous Stewards in Biblical and Modern Times
357
Altruism, Self-Interest, and the Morality of the Private Sector: An Austrian Approach

Review

377
Review of “Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good”
380
Review of “Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy”
382
Review of “The Imperative of Self-Reliance for the Churches in Africa”; “Contextual Application of Christian Social Teaching on Political Ethics”; “Examining the Foundations of Solidarity in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul II”
385
Review of “Natural-Law Liberalism”
388
Review of “Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty”
391
Review of “A Greener Faith” and “Sacramental Commons”
397
Review of “Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics: An Anthology”
399
Review of “The Challenge of Affluence”
401
Review of “The Commercial Society”
403
Review of “The Intellectual Property Debate—Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Political Economy”
404
Review of “Human Rights and Capitalism”
407
Review of “The Bourgeois Virtues”
411
Review of “Adam’s Fallacy”
414
Review of “Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy”
418
Review of “Temples, Tithes, and Taxes”
419
Review of “The Marketplace of Christianity”
422
Review of “Milton Friedman: A Biography”
425
Review of “The Cambridge Companion to Hayek”
428
Review of “God and Caesar”

Scholia

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Introduction
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Contents
1
Dubitatio 1: Definition of Buying, Selling, and Business
4
Dubitatio 2: The Equal or Just Price of Saleable Goods
8
Dubitatio 3: Is It Allowed for the Owner of a Good That Does Not Have a Legal or Common Price (e.g., Certain Gems, Special Dogs or Falcons, Exotic Birds, Ancient Paintings, etc.) to Sell It at Any Price He Wants?
10
Dubitatio 4: Is It Licit in Some Cases to Sell a Good Dearer or Buy It Cheaper Than It Is Worth?[21]
20
Dubitatio 5: Is It Allowed for Me to Sell at the Current Price Even Though I Know That the Price of the Good Is About to Fall?
26
Dubitatio 6: Is the Seller Allowed to Charge a Higher Price If He Is Selling on Credit?
30
Dubitatio 7: Is the Buyer Allowed to Offer Less Because of Advance Payment?
34
Dubitatio 8: Is It Allowed to Buy a Bill of Debtor Bond below Its Nominal Value? For Example, You Now Buy at 96 or 97 Guildersa Right on Payment of 100 Due Next Year
39
Dubitatio 9: Is It Allowed Sometimes to Buy Bills of Debt, Also Known As Libranciae, at Half the Price in Case Payment Is Difficult or Uncertain to Obtain?
41
Dubitatio 11: Is a Seller Obliged to Reveal a Defect in the Good He Wants to Sell?
47
Dubitatio 16: Is the Mutual Sale-Purchase of the Same Good at a Different Price, a Practice Known by the Spaniards as Baratae-Mohatrae, Licit?
49
Dubitatio 21: Are All Kinds of Monopoly Unjust?

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