| ABOUT THE Center for Academic Research |
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The Center for Academic Research (CAR) was established in 1996
as the academic research facility of the Acton Institute. Located
in the Waters Building in downtown Grand Rapids, the Center accommodates
in-house scholars in the disciplines of philosophy, history, theology,
and economics. From time to time, we also host invited scholars
for discrete academic projects. The investigations of our scholars
attempt to clarify the foundations of a free and humane society.
The work involved in developing the notion of economic personalism
is guided by an uncompromising commitment to human dignity, economic
liberty, the recognition of the benefits of a limited government,
and faith in the one true God. Above all, the investigations at
the Center are directed to the pursuit of truth.
| RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM CAR |
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Markets
& Morality Volume 8, Number 1 • Spring 2005
The latest issue of Journal of Markets & Morality
features a new Scholia by Luis de Molina titled “Treatise
on Money,” translated by Jeannine Emery with an
introduction by Francisco Camacho.
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Trial by Fury: Restoring the Common Good in Tort Litigation
American tort law has become the subject of public
scrutiny in the last decades. The criticism cast against it
is that its current state bears economic incentives for abuse.
But the tort law system engenders an even greater evil: the
perversion of the human person. Acts of injustice tolerated
by a permissive tort system have facilitated the near obliteration
of forgiveness and reconciliation, of kindness and goodwill,
and they have thus cleaved a chasm in human fellowship. The
tort system has thus forsaken its proper role as arbiter of
justice in service of the common good. Instead, it is distorting
responsibility into blame, and human dignity into parasitic
opportunism. This monograph not only points to the gravity
of this moral effect of tort law on the human person, but
it attempts to lay the ground for restoring the common good
in tort litigation.
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A
Theory of Corruption
There is no greater scourge that affects the proper
functioning of any economic system than corruption. Tragically,
corruption is pervasive in developing nations. The effects
of corruption also have legal ramifications, often undermining
the rule of law. But fundamentally, corruption falls squarely
in the moral realm because it is symptomatic of the original
sin that marks the heart of every person. This monograph offers
a theological and economic examination that puts into question
many of the uncritically accepted assumptions held about corruption.
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Business
and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations?, Nicholas
Capaldi (ed.), Samuel Gregg's "Globalization: Insights
from Catholic Social Teaching," and Kevin Schmiesing's
"Why is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion?
A Historical Perspective" were published in this
collection of essays on the relationship between business
and religion.
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