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Cardinal Bertone and Metropolitan Kirill on Social Doctrine

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

Paola Fantini has expanded her blog post on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's new work on Catholic social doctrine into a book review for the forthcoming Religion & Liberty quarterly published by the Acton Institute. She has also translated the prologue to the book by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill. These articles are the first to translate anything from Cardinal Bertone's “The Ethics of the Common Good in Catholic Social Doctrine” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008) into English. The Italian title is "L'etica del Bene Comune nella Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa."

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A Biblical Precedent for the Coase Theorem? by Andrew Schein

This article suggests that the law of Deuteronomy 23:25, 26, which allows all people unlimited access to fields, is referring to ownerless fields that have only two possible uses, as farmland or as passageways for travelers. If the value of the land as a pathway for travelers is greater than the value of the land as farmland, then the field will remain as a passageway. However, if the value of the land as farmland is greater than the value of the land as a passageway, then the farmers will cultivate the land, provided the transaction costs from cultivating the land is lower than the expected benefits from the produce. These examples correspond to the Coase Theorem, as absent transaction costs, the land will achieve its maximum efficiency, but with sufficient transaction costs, then the land will not be used productively and will remain barren.

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Emerging Argentine Economic Philosopher to receive 2008 Novak Award

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