Papers

The papers that follow are arranged under four subject headings: Catholic Social Teaching, Religion & Society, Philosophy & Economics, and Economic Personalism. These papers constitute the corpus of thought that serves as the foundation for the economic personalism movement that gave rise to the Center in 1996. We invite you to read these materials, and we encourage you to respond with a critical argument. Our goal is to seek truth and this can only be achieved in a free market of ideas.

Catholic Social Teaching

• John Paul II's Use of the Term Neo-Liberalism in Ecclesia in America
  Michel Therrien
• The Judeo-Christian Concept of the Person (PDF )
  Michael Novak
• Centesimus Annus and the Renewal of Culture (PDF )
  Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.
• The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right Nor Left (PDF )
  Daniel Rush Finn
• Freedom and Culture in the Americas: Reflections on Ecclesia in America
  Kevin E. Schmiesing
• The Principle of Subsidiarity and Four Freedoms (PDF )
  Gregory R. Beabout
• Catholic Social Teaching on the Economics of Immigration (PDF )
  Andrew M. Yuengert

Religion & Society

• Abraham Kuyper and the Holland-America Line of Liberty (PDF )
  John Bolt
• Liberty and the Virtue of Prudence (PDF )
  Todd R. Flanders
• T. S. Eliot's Neo-Medieval Economics (PDF )
  Michael R. Stevens
• The Entrepreneurial Vocation (PDF )
  Rev. Robert A. Sirico
• Environmental Theology: A Judeo-Christian Defense (PDF )
  Peter J. Hill
• Human Rights and the Rights of Nature (PDF )
  Thomas Sieger Derr
• Liberty and the Place of Man in Nature (PDF )
  William C. Dennis
• Ecological Confusion among the Clergy (PDF )
  Allan Fitzsimmons
• The Ethics of Capitalism (PDF )
  Jesús Huerta de Soto
• Nature and Grace: The Theological Foundations of Jacques Maritain’s Public Philosophy (PDF )
  Eduardo J. Echeverria

Personhood

• “Eine Ontologie der Würde” (“An Ontology of Dignity”) in Ralf Stoecker (ed.), Menschenwürde: Annäherung an einen Begriff (A Treatise on Human Dignity), öbv&hpt, Wien, 2003, pp. 175-191. (PDF )
  Gloria Zúñiga

Philosophy and Economics

• An Ontology of Economic Objects: An Application of Carl Menger’s Ideas (PDF )
  Gloria Zúñiga
• Misesian Praxelogy and Christian Philosophy (PDF )
  Gabriel J. Zanotti
• Truth in Economic Subjectivism (PDF )
  Gloria Zúñiga
• The Economics of the Late Scholastics (PDF )
  Rev. Robert A. Sirico
• The Imperialism of Economics over Ethics (PDF )
  Jesús M. Zaratiegui
• Christian Ethics and the Teaching of Introductory Economics (PDF )
  John E. Stapleford
• Economic Religion Versus Christian Values (PDF )
  Robert H. Nelson
• The Economics of Bertrand de Jouvenel (PDF )
  William R. Luckey
• A Short History of Economics As a Moral Science (PDF )
  James E. Alvey
• A History of Personalism (PDF )
  Kevin E. Schmiesing
• What Is Economic Personalism? A Phenomenological Analysis (PDF )
  Gloria L. Zúñiga
• The Context of Economic Personalism (PDF )
  Kevin E. Schmiesing
• “Christian” Economics (PDF )
  Francis Woehrling

Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Congress for the Development of Economic Personalism

• Moderator’s Opening Remarks (PDF )
  Samuel Gregg
• Papers and Replies (PDF )
• Statement of Principles for Economic Personalism (PDF )

About CEP:

•  Research Staff

Key Topics (Reading List):

•  Christian Social Thought
•  Economic Personalism
•  Free-market Economics
•  Human Dignity
•  Marriage and the Family
•  Moral Realism
•  Natural Law
•  Private Property
•  Value Theory (Axiology)

Publications:

•  Markets & Morality
•  Books
•  Studies in Ethics and Economics
•  Christian Social Thought Series
•  Papers

Economic Personalism:

•  What is Econ. Personalism?
•  Statement of Principles
•  History
•  Ontology
•  Conference 2001

Other Resources:

•  Suggested Reading
•  Related Websites
•  In the Liberal Tradition: A History of Liberty

For Students:

•  Awards & Scholarships
•  Student Conferences