That's Not the Only Problem

What has surprised me the most about this statement from the #EconomyofFrancesco summit is the lack of emphasis on the family. If there is any central message of @Pontifex on economics, it's the importance of the family in any economic system. https://t.co/TiWbmtZQvn

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) November 25, 2020

Who is Funding This?

“The obsolescence of the 20th century economy is showing, but also of the economy before January 2020. We have entered the era of communal wealth and a new economy is needed,” says Luigino Bruni, scientific director of the Economy of Francesco https://t.co/BfwMKXFvJ3 pic.twitter.com/fEi5WHsrCy

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 28, 2020

Because Economics is an "Independent" "Science"

Bad writing by philosophers and theologians about economics is a moral issue. If their views about economics are taken seriously—as they often are in churches and in policy advocacy—they threaten the life-changing effects of free markets for the poor. https://t.co/pmgb7k83oN

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 29, 2020

Public Discourse

The Moral Economy by Samuel Bowles

Yale: The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

This is a good book and even talks about “the Aristotelian legislator” but it made me wish classical philosophical language about motivation were more readily available to economists. It’s a book about the relation between reason, desire, and thumos. pic.twitter.com/qPylQpO5yd

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) July 16, 2020

2020 St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture at Villanova University

Mary Hirschfeld, PhD, an associate professor of economics and theology at Villanova, presents the Office for Mission and Ministry's annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture, titled St. Thomas’s Views on the Economy and Human Happiness.

Another Response to Vermeule

Adrian Vermeule’s Nosebleed by Thomas FitzGerald
Originalism has plenty of tools within itself to advance the common good.

Professor Vermeule can better serve the cause of Catholic integralism by pairing his laudable zeal for the natural law and for statecraft as soulcraft with a statesmanly rhetorical restraint in better accord with sensibilities shaped over centuries by the democratic republican traditions of America’s providential constitution. I would respectfully suggest to the learned professor that if he continues to puckishly troll the American democratic and scholarly publics with visions of an authoritarian bureaucracy that suppresses all vices, the integralist project he has seemingly made his life’s work risks being the work of a hero with a tragic flaw—an admirably pious and zealous, impressively clever, scorchingly witty, but recklessly imprudent crusader for Christendom who “violently bloweth his nose, and bringeth out blood.”

The question to be asked of integralists: "How many divisions do you have?" Do they realize they have no political power to implement their "ideals" at the national level or even at the state level? If we need political theorists doing intellectual work, it's to continue the work of Aristotle and the localists, and to look for concrete solutions to oligarchy in specific places.

A Broken Clock

Church Life

Mary Hirschfeld Awarded Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation Prize

CNS: Villanova economics-theology professor receives papal foundation prize by Carol Glatz

NCR

Gerald J. Russello Reviews Aquinas and the Market

CWR Dispatch: Cui bono? Bringing Thomistic thought to bear on modern economics by Gerald J. Russello

In her new book, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld makes a welcome contribution to a distinctive, Catholic way of looking at economics.

A New Generation of Theocons

Public Discourse: Integrating Catholic Social Teaching With Economics and Natural Science by Jay Richards

MoJ: What's Missing in the New CDF Document: Critique of corrupting, inequality-increasing monopolies

Common Good Conference at UST MN

Dale Ahlquist on the Chesterton Option

The Dispatch

Plenty of economic localism -- but is it enough? Even Catholics are clueless with respect to community-formation.

Homo economicus is actually Homo servus

The illusion of economic freedom is just that.

Economic productivity has been extracted by powers outside the home, leaving little economic freedom that is rooted in a domestic economy. And now, even women have been taken out of the home so they can be turned into consuming/producing units in service of those holding economic power.

Without cheap energy to sustain the system and the consolidation of economic and political power by the few, feminism would not be possible.

William Cavanaugh, "What Do I Want? Augustine and Milton Friedman on Freedom of Choice"

Fr. Z: Sam Gregg of ACTON on medieval distinctions about usury and legitimate forms of money-lending

The Lake Garda Statement

Rorate Caeli

What version of the Catholic Third Way do they posit between liberalism/capitalism and socialism/collectivism? Hard to say, since they don't say much about it, or the errors to which they are opposed (though some of the signatories have done so in their books). How many of them have tried to run a farm that is as closed an ecological system as possible? Or have examined the foundation of Western economies, cheap energy? Maybe if they had a sufficient knowledge of economics and politics they would not be inveighing against "sustainable development" as if the only understanding of sustainable development was being given by secular humanists who seek population control.

Have Not Read This Yet

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Freedom

Post by Ethika Politika.

Is profit possible without surplus? How much surplus is possible in a ustainable system?