Acton Research

List of Readings

Chisholm, Roderick M.
Chisholm, Roderick M. Realism and the Background of Phenomenology. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1960.
Devitt, M.
Devitt, M. Realism and Truth. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Heil, John
Heil, John (ed.). Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993.
Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey
Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey (eds.). Essays on Moral Realism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

Moral Realism

List of Readings

Author(s). Title. Publisher, Year(s).
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT
A Colloquium in the Vatican. After 1991: Capitalism and Ethics. A Colloquium in the Vatican. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1992.
Beisner, E. Calvin. Prosperity and Poverty. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1988.
Benedict XVI, Pope. Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 2005.
Bigongiari, D., ed.. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas. New York: Hafner Press, 1981.
Buttiglione, Rocco. Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1997.
. Catechism of the Catholic Church. Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994.
Calvez, S.J., Jean-Yves. L'eglise devant le liberalisme economique. Paris: Cerf, 1994.
Calvez, S.J., Jean-Yves. The Social Thought of John XXIII: Mater et Magistra. London: Burns and Oates, 1965.
Chafuen, Alejandro\. Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation Libertatis Nuntius. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1984.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Instruction on Christian Liberation and Freedom Libertatis Conscientia. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1986.
Cronin, John F.. Catholic Social Principles. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1950.
de Lubac, S.J., Henri. The Drama of Atheist Humanism. London: Sheed and Ward, 1949.
Gay, Craig M.. With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1991.
Gregg, Samuel. Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001.
Henry, Carl F.. Aspects of Christian Social Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1964.
Heckel, R.. The Human Person and Social Structures. Rome: Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax, 1980.
Hoffner, J.. Economic Systems and Economic Ethics: Guidelines in Catholic Social Teaching. Kolin: Vereinigung zur Forderung der Christlichen Sozialwissenschaften, 1988.
John XXIII, Pope. Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra ("Christianity and Social Progress"). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1961.
John Paul II, Pope. Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 2003.
John Paul II, Pope. Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1991.
John Paul II, Pope. Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1987.
John Paul II, Pope. Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens (On Human Work). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1981.
Kraynack, Robert. Christian Faith and Modern Democracy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Kuyper, Abraham. Lectures on Calvinism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1994 (1899).
Lawler, P.. Papal Economics. Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 1982.
Leo XIII, Pope. Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum (On the condition of the Working Classes). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1891.
Marshall, Paul. Thine is the Kingdom: A Biblical Perspective on the Nature of Government and Politics Today. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1984.
Messner, Johannes. Social Ethics: Natural Law in the Modern World. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1965.
Mueller, Franz. The Church and the Social Question. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1984.
Murray, S.J., John Courtney. We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1960.
Nash, Ronald H.. Social Justice and the Christian Church. Milford: MI: Mott Media, Inc., 1983.
Neuhaus, Richard John. Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Novak, Michael. Free Persons and the Common Good. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989.
Novak, Michael. Will It Liberate? Questions about Liberation Theology. Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press, 1986.
Olasky, Marvin. The Tragedy of American Compassion. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1992.
Paul VI, Pope. Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1967.
Pius XI, Pope. Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo Anno (On Social Reconstruction). Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1931.
Phan, Peter C., ed.. Message of the Fathers of the Church, Social Thought, Vol. 20. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1984.
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 2004.
Ratzinger, Joseph. Church, Ecumenism, and Politics. Middlegreen: St. Paul Publications, 1988.
Ratzinger, Joseph. Principles of Christian Morality. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986.
Schuck, M.. That They May Be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1991.
Van Til, Henry R.. The Calvinistic Concept of Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1959.
Weigel, George, ed.. A Century of Catholic Social Thought: Essays on Rerum Novarum and Nine Other Key Documents. Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991.
Weigel, George, ed.. A New Worldly Order: John Paul II and Human Freedom. Lanham, MD: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992.
Weigel, George \. Soul of the World. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1996.
Wogaman, J. Philip. Economics and Ethics. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
FREE MARKET ECONOMICS
Acton, H.B.. The Morals of Markets and Related Essays. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1993.
Bastiat, J. Frederic. The Law. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1996 (1850).
Bastiat, J. Frederic. "What is Seen and What is Not Seen" in Selected Essays on Political Economy. Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964.
Bastiat, J. Frederic. Economic Harmonies. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1968.
Bastiat, J. Frederic. Economic Sophisms. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1996.
Becker, Gary. The Economics of Discrimination. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Beisner, E. Calvin. Prosperity and Poverty. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1988.
Bell, John F.. A History of Economic Thought. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1967.
Blaug, Mark. The Methodology of Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen von. Capital and Interest. South Holland, IL: Libertarian Press, 1959 (1884).
Cochran, John P.. The Hayek-Keynes Debate -- Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
Glahe, Fred R.. The Hayek-Keynes Debate -- Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
Crespo, Ricardo F.. La Economía como Ciencia Moral: Nuevas Perspectivas de la Teoría Economica. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Universidad Católica Argentina, 1997.
Ekelund, Jr., Robert B.. A History of Economic Theory and Method. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Hebert, Robert F.. A History of Economic Theory and Method. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Friedman, Milton. Dollars and Deficits: Living with America's Economic Problems. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Friedman, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Friedman, Rose. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Friedman, Milton. Free to Choose. New York: Avon, 1979.
Friedman, Rose. Free to Choose. New York: Avon, 1979.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Price Theory: A Provisional Text. Chicago: Aldine, 1970 (1962).
Gay, Craig M.. With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1991.
Gilder, George. Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1992.
Gilder, George. Wealth and Poverty. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993.
Griffiths, Brian. The Creation of Wealth: A Christian's Case for Capitalism. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1984.
Gwartney, James. What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity. Tallahassee, FL: The James Madison Institute, 1993.
Stroup, Richard. What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity. Tallahassee, FL: The James Madison Institute, 1993.
Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1979.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von. "Economics and Knowledge" In Individualism and Economic Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von. "The Use of Knowledge in Society" In Individualism and Economic Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. London: Routledge, 1967.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von. The Road to Serfdom. London: George Rutledge & Sons, 1944.
Henry, Carl F.. Aspects of Christian Social Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1964.
Heyne, Paul. The Economic Way of Thinking. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Holcombe, Randall G.. Economic Models and Methodology. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Jevons, William Stanley. Political Economy. New York: D. Appleton, 1978.
Kirzner, Israel. Competition & Entrepreneurship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Kirzner, Israel. Discovery and the Capitalist Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Kirzner, Israel. The Meaning of the Market Process. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Kirzner, Israel. Perception, Opportunity, and Profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Knight, Frank H.. The Economic Organization. New York: Harper & Row, 1951.
Knight, Frank H.. Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. New York: Sentry Press, 1964.
Kuyper, Abraham. The Problem of Poverty. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991.
Lavoie, Don. "The Interpretative Turn" In The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Ed. Peter Boettke. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1994.
Marshall, Alfred. Principles of Economics, 9th ed., vol. 1. Ed. C.W. Guillebaud. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961 (1890).
Menger, Carl. Principles of Economics. Grove City, PA: Libertarian Press Inc., 1994.
Mises, Ludwig von. A Critique of Interventionism. Newe Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1976 (1929).
Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, 3rd ed. Rev.. Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1966.
Mises, Ludwig von. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1981.
Mises, Ludwig von. Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.
Mises, Ludwig von. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science. Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews, and McMeel, 1962.
Nash, Ronald H.. Social Justice and the Christian Church. Milford, MI: Mott Media, Inc., 1983.
Novak, Michael. Business as a Calling. Toronto: The Free Press, 1996.
Novak, Michael. The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: The Free Press, 1993.
Novak, Michael. The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991.
Pareto, Vilfredo. Manual d'Economie Politique. Paris, 1927.
Rescher, Nicholas. Introduction to Value Theory. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Ricardo, David. "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" In The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Ed. Piero Sraffa. Cambridge: University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1953.
Robbins, Lionel. Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 2nd ed.. London: Macmillan, 1935.
Roepke, Wilhelm. Economics of the Free Society. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963.
Roepke, Wilhelm. "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: On the Nature of the Welfare State" In Against the Tide. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1969.
Rothbard, Murray. Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 1. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1995.
Rothbard, Murray. Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Insitute, 1993.
Samuelson, Paul A.. Foundations of Economic Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
Schumpeter, Joseph A.. History of Economic Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Sirico, Robert A.. Economics, Faith and Moral Responsibility. New Zealand: The Centre for Independent Studies, 1993.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938 (1776).
Stigler, George. The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Taylor, Thomas C.. An Introduction to Austrian Economics. Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988.
Thornton, Mark. The Economics of Prohibition. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991.
Vaughn, Karen I.. Austrian Economics in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1994.
Walras, Leon. Elements of Pure Economics or The Theory of Social Wealth. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1954 (1926).
Wanniski, Jude. The Way the World Works: How Economies Fail--and Succeed. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1978.
Weiser, Friedrich von. Natural Value. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971 (1893).
Weiser, Friedrich von. Social Economics. New York: Adelphi, 1927.
Wicksell, Knut. Lectures on Political Economy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1951 (1934).
Wogaman, J. Philip. Economics and Ethics. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
Zaratiegui, Jesús M.. "The Imperialism of Economics over Ethics" In Journal of Markets & Morality 2, 2 (October 1999). Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism, 1999.
HUMAN DIGNITY
Crespo, Ricardo F.. "Reply to Marc Guerra's 'The Affirmation of Genuine Human Dignity'" In Journal of Markets & Morality. Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism, 2001.
Guerra, Marc D.. "The Affirmation of Genuine Human Dignity" In Journal of Markets & Morality. Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism, 2001.
Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1948 (1785).
Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (1797).
Kolnai, Aurel. "Dignity" In Journal of Philosophy. , 1976.
Kolnai, Aurel. Ethics, Value and Reality: Selected Papers on Aurel Kolnoi. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978.
Mulligan, R.W.. "The Nature of Person in Wittgenstein," In The New Scholasticism. University of Notre Dame, 1970.
NATURAL LAW
Artistotle. Ethics. , .
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Aquinas, Saint Thomas. Summa Theologica. London: Blackfriars, 1975.
Althusius, Johannes. Politics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964 (1614).
Black, Rufus. Christian Moral Realism: Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue and the Gospel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Biggar, Nigel. The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Budziszewski, J.. Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
Budziszewski, J.. The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 2000.
Budziszewski, J.. "The Roots of Law" In Religion & Liberty, vol. 11, n. 5. Grand Rapids: Acton Institute, 2001.
Budziszewski, J.. What We Can't Not Know: A Guide. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 2003.
Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques. The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006.
Brunner, Emil. Christianity and Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-49.
Brunner, Emil. Justice and the Social Order. London: Lutterworth Press, 1945.
Brunner, Emil. Man in Revolt: A Christian Anthropology. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1947.
Brunner, Emil. Revelation and Reason: The Christian Doctrine of Faith and Knowledge. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1946.
Brunner, Emil. The Divine Imperative: A Study in Christian Ethics. New York: Macmillan, 1937.
Cumberland, Richard. A Treatise of the Laws of Nature (1627). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.
Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980/1993.
Finnis, John. Fundamentals of Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1983.
Finnis, John. Nuclear Deterrence: Morality and Realism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Boyle, Joseph. Nuclear Deterrence: Morality and Realism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Grisez, Germain. Nuclear Deterrence: Morality and Realism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Finnis, John. Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth. Washington, DC: University of America Press, 1991.
Finnis, John. Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
George, Robert P, ed.. Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
George, Robert P.. Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
George, Robert P., ed.. Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
George, Robert P.. "Natural Law and Positive Law" in The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
George, Robert P.. In Defense of Natural Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
George, Robert P.. "A Clash of Orthodoxies", First Things 95. , 1999.
George, Robert P. ed.. Natural Law and Public Reason. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Wolfe, Christopher, ed.. Natural Law and Public Reason. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Glendon, Mary Ann. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. New York: Free Press, 1991.
Gierke, Otto Friedrich von. Natural Law and the Theory of Society, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950.
Grabill, Stephen. Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.
Gregg, Samuel. On Ordered Liberty. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.
Gregg, Samuel. Morality, Law, and Public Policy. Sydney: St. Thomas More Press, 2001.
Grisez, Germain. The Way of the Lord Jesus, 3 vols.. , 1983, 1993, 1997.
Grotius, Hugo. Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty (1603). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006.
Grotius, Hugo. The Rights of War and Peace (1625), 3 vols.. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.
Gustafson, James M.. Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Hare, John E.. God's Call: Moral Realism, God's Commands, and Human Autonomy. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2001.
Hittinger, Russell\. A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.
Home, Henry. Elements of Criticism (1762). 2 vols.. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.
Hutcheson, Francis. Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind (1730). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006.
Kuyper, Abraham. De gemeene gratie, 3 vols.. Leiden: Donner, 1902.
Kuyper, Abraham. Encyclopaedie der heilige godgeleerdheid, 3 vols.. Amsterdam: J.A. Wormser, 1894.
Mackintosh, Sir James. Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution (1791). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.