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MacIntyre in Retreat
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biographyby émile perreau-saussine, translated by nathan j. pinkoskiuniversity of notre dame, 216 pages, $40 He lived, he worked, he died.” Heidegger’s famously terse summary of Aristotle’s...
Thomistic Economics
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economyby mary l. hirschfeldnharvard, 288 pages, $45 Economists make a point of speaking in conditionals, not categoricals. They never just say: “Do...
Market Morals
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy by Robert A. Sirico Regnery, 256 pages, $27.95 The Catholic Church, at its best, has preserved a rare...
The Emancipation of Avarice
The last few years have seen a surprising revival of the term “greed.” For many decades, the free-market right saw no harm in people making as much money as...