May 04, 2016
May 03, 2016
Now Available: ‘On Sale, Securities, and Insurance’ by Leonardus Lessius
In his famous work, History of Economic Analysis, economist Joseph A. Schumpeter gives a favorable nod to the works of Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623), sparking a fair amount of interest in the 16th-century Jesuit moral theologian. Continue Reading...
March 08, 2016
Alabama Church Pays Off Payday Loans
February 25, 2015
How Churches Can Protect the Poor Against Predatory Lending
February 25, 2015
Keeping The Poor Impoverished And Incarcerated
February 10, 2015
Now Available: ‘A Treatise on Money’ by Luis de Molina
December 18, 2014
Now Available: ‘On Exchange’ by Martín de Azpilcueta (Doctor Navarrus)
December 08, 2014
Did the Catholic Church Change Its Doctrine on Usury?
July 08, 2014
David Brat’s Religious Virtues
In a piece today for the NYT Magazine, economics reporter Binyamin Appelbaum examines David Brat’s fusion of faith and free-market economics. Appelbaum finds that mixture problematic, to say the least, but it’s hard to sort out whether it is the religious faith or the free-market sympathies that Appelbaum finds more troubling. Continue Reading...
May 06, 2014
Now Available: ‘On Exchange and Usury’ by Thomas Cajetan
Christian’s Library Press has released a new translation of two treatises on exchange and usury by Thomas Cajetan (1469-1534), a Dominican theologian, philosopher, and cardinal.
Although best known for his commentaries on the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, Cajetan also wrote dozens of other works, including short treatises on socioeconomic problems. Continue Reading...