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As painful as the financial crisis is in its own right, the public reaction is even more disturbing: a majority of Americans are blaming the free market and running to the government to fix things. They fail to realize that we haven't had a free market....

The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
~ Lord Acton

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Dr. Andrew Abela to receive the Acton Institute's 2009 Novak Award

Dr. Andrew Abela, Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair-elect of the Department of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, is the recipient of the 2009 Novak Award. Believing that anti-free market perspectives seem to dominate discussion about the social impact of business, Dr. Abela is working to explore Christian ethics further to show how these issues can be resolved more humanely and effectively through market-oriented approaches. Read More...

Acton Research

The Research Department serves as the academic research facility of the Acton Institute, accommodating in-house and externally-based scholars from a variety of nationalities, Christian confessions, and different intellectual disciplines. Read More »

Acton's Core Principles

The Core Principles provides a framework for Acton Research as it seeks to make clear the path to a free and virtuous society. Read about the Core Principles here.

In the Liberal Tradition

Francisco Suarez (1548 - 1617)

Francisco Suarez (1548 - 1617)“...if a legitimate prince governs tyrannically and no other means of self-defence can be found than the expulsion and deposition of the king, then the people, acting as a whole...may depose him.”