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Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics 2nd Edition
Author(s): Alejandro A. Chafuen (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: May 7, 2003
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 172 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739105418
- ISBN-13: 9780739105412
Book Description
Most people think that freemarket ideas and theories were first substanially developed in the eighteenth century by figures such as Adam Smith. In this revised edition of Faith and Liberty, Alejandro A. Chafuen illustrates this misconception by examining the sixteenth and seventeenth century writings of a group of Catholic theologians and philosophers, known as the LateScholastics. In this revised ediiton, Chafuen blosters his case by including recent and pertinent material which gives rise to new questions and concerns.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“. . . Chafuen convincingly undermines the facile assumptions that free-market ideas and theories originated with Adam Smith and his contemporaries.” ―Theological Studies
“This book likewise seeks to address itself to free market economists and historians who have neglected or failed fully to understand the relation of general moral purpose to economics itself. Chafuen relates this connection in a coherent and systematic manner that should also serve as a positive contribution, seen in light of this long history of moral and economic reflection, both to modern economics as a study and to modern social thought as a practice.” ―James V Schall, Georgetown University, From The Foreword
About the Author
Alejandro A. Chafuen is the President and CEO of Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He has served as Professor of Economics at the National Hispanic University in Oakland, California.
