Entitled “Capitalism with a Conscience,” it appeared on July 10 in the Times of London online.
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:22 PM
Search
First Things
Loading
/ 
Masthead
Tristyn Bloom
Matthew Cantirino
Anthony Esolen
Gene Fant
Greg Forster
Matthew J. Franck
Collin Garbarino
Robert P. George
William J. Haun
Leroy Huizenga
Katherine Infantine
Joseph Knippenberg
David T. Koyzis
Robert T. Miller
Matthew Milliner
David Mills
Mark Movsesian
William Mumma
Nathaniel Peters
R.R. Reno
James R. Rogers
Russell E. Saltzman
Matthew Schmitz
Kevin Staley-Joyce
David Talcott
Anna Williams
First Thoughts
Archive
Archive
July 13th, 2009 | 12:04 pm
This article notes the pre-requisite virtues which the Pope says must undergird a good economic system. For another interesting take on this, read “Love and Economics” by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, edgily subtitled “It takes a family to raise a village”. This economics professor reminds her profession, and us interested “bystanders”, of an unacknowledged assumption in the presentation of free-market economic ideas.