‘The Polycentric Republic’ by David Thunder
Philip Booth assesses an argument for a limited state and dispersed, competing forms of governance based not simply on a concern for increased freedom, but the ability to flourish.
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Explaining Social Justice using the Prodigal Son
Philip Booth uses the Parable of the Prodigal Son to distinguish social justice from distributive justice in Catholic social teaching, and explain the common good.
‘The Price of our Values’ by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar
The Price of Our Values stresses the need for ‘value pluralism’: for economics to acknowledge the shortcomings of some of its default analytic positions and make greater room for moral concerns, as well as the need for moral thinking to allow greater space for economic (...)
