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The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
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In The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy, Thomas E. Woods Jr. makes a vigorous argument in favor of the market economy from a Catholic perspective. Filling a lapse in the debate on the role of religious thought in economic theory, W...

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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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From the Journal of Markets & Morality

Smithian Perspective on the Markets of Beliefs: Public Policies and Religion by José Atilano Pena López & José Manuel Sánchez Santos

This article studies the economic analysis of the religious facts present in Smith's work from the perspective of regulation economics. This marks the starting point of a new research program that focuses on the existence of markets of beliefs and questions the secularization processes and public performances on religion. In the first part, two basic problems are tackled: (1) the rationality of the agents within this market and (2) the economic effects of the different market structures on the behavior of the agents. The second part deals with the normative consequences that are possible from the previous exposition on the regulation of the markets of religion. Overall, our approach allows us to establish the fundamental components of the economic analysis of the religious facts and their consequences on that regulation.

In the Liberal Tradition

Issac Backus (1724 - 1806)

Issac Backus (1724 - 1806)“Ma allora chi è che può sentire Dio dichiarare che il suo regno non è di questo mondo, e che continua a credere che questa mescolanza di Stato e Chiesa possa fargli piacere?”
What the French took from the Americans was their theory of revolution, not their theory of government — their cutting, not their sewing.
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