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Volume 10, Number 2 • Fall 2007

Editorial

  Stephen J. Grabill Ph.D.   257   Leonard Lessius and the Prehistory of Economics

Article

  Mary Ann Glendon   263   John Paul II’s Challenges to the Social Sciences
  John R. Schneider   279   Christian Theology and the Human Ontology of Market Capitalism
  Dr. Donald P. Condit   299   Should Business Be Responsible for Employee Health Care?
  Edward J. O'Boyle   321   Requiem for Homo Economicus
  Pamela Z. Jackson & Jonathan E. Leightner   339   Unrighteous Stewards in Biblical and Modern Times
  John Meadowcroft   357   Altruism, Self-Interest, and the Morality of the Private Sector: An Austrian Approach

Review

  Michel Therrian   377   Review of “Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good”
  Oskari Juurikkala   380   Review of “Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy”
  Kevin E. Schmiesing Ph.D.   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”
  Paul Seaton   385   Review of “Natural-Law Liberalism”
  Marc D. Guerra   388   Review of “Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty”
  E. Calvin Beisner   391   Review of “A Greener Faith” and “Sacramental Commons”
  Jim Wishloff   397   Review of “Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics: An Anthology”
  John Lunn   399   Review of “The Challenge of Affluence”
  Leonard P. Liggio   401   Review of “The Commercial Society”
  Vanessa Pierce Rollins   403   Review of “The Intellectual Property Debate—Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Political Economy”
  Adel S. Abadeer   404   Review of “Human Rights and Capitalism”
  John Larrivee   407   Review of “The Bourgeois Virtues”
  Edd S. Noell   411   Review of “Adam’s Fallacy”
  Francis Woehrling   414   Review of “Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy”
  Andrew Schein   418   Review of “Temples, Tithes, and Taxes”
  Christopher Westley   419   Review of “The Marketplace of Christianity”
  Julio H. Cole   422   Review of “Milton Friedman: A Biography”
  Johannes Graf   425   Review of “The Cambridge Companion to Hayek”
  Samuel Gregg D.Phil.   428   Review of “God and Caesar”

Scholia

  Wim Decock   -3   Introduction
    0   Contents
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   1   Dubitatio 1: Definition of Buying, Selling, and Business
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   4   Dubitatio 2: The Equal or Just Price of Saleable Goods
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   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?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   10   Dubitatio 4: Is It Licit in Some Cases to Sell a Good Dearer or Buy It Cheaper Than It Is Worth?[21]
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   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?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   26   Dubitatio 6: Is the Seller Allowed to Charge a Higher Price If He Is Selling on Credit?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   30   Dubitatio 7: Is the Buyer Allowed to Offer Less Because of Advance Payment?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   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
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   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?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   41   Dubitatio 11: Is a Seller Obliged to Reveal a Defect in the Good He Wants to Sell?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   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?
  Leonardus Lessius S.J.   49   Dubitatio 21: Are All Kinds of Monopoly Unjust?

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