Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
If machines do the work and the state pays the wage, what becomes of our dignity?
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Entrepreneurship is a distinct vocation, requiring virtues rarely articulated in management literature. Drawing on economic analysis of radical uncertainty alongside Catholic social teaching from Pius XII to Francis, Philip Booth sets out the virtues demanded of the entrepreneur — and argues that they extend well beyond business, to civil society (...)
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Is competition merely a necessary evil to be restrained? Drawing on Trinitarian theology and the doctrine of stewardship, this blog argues that rightly ordered competition is essential to human flourishing.
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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.
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Fr. Francisco Mota S.J. on why business leadership is a true vocation—and why good goods, good work, and good wealth demand more than advocacy alone.
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An interesting example of market transformation can be seen in the growth of worldwide spending on beauty products, which reached $440bn in 2024. There are various trends (or pressures) at work, with men now feeling freer to spend on beauty products and demand growing among young people, who are purchasing (...)
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In his Nobel Prize lecture, Ronald Coase said: ‘a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent’. Think of the retail sector, for example. Its sole function is to reduce transactions costs – not to produce anything tangible. (...)
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Anthropomorphising AI is rhetorically seductive but intellectually unsound. We must remember that the analogy between artificial intelligence and human intelligence is a distant one. Otherwise, we risk conflating computer systems with human-like agents and automation with autonomy. The anthropomorphisation of artificial intelligence – i.e. the attribution of human characteristics, intentions, (...)
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Before the torrent of games available on your phone, a popular game in magazines was ‘spot the difference’. It’s amusing to play and realise that often we don’t immediately spot all the differences even when we stare at both pictures intently. But I wonder if the same issue arises in (...)
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The Protection of Workers, Unions and the Duties of Employers This is a repost of an article originally published on the Catholic Social Teaching blog of St Mary’s University (https://catholicsocialthought.org.uk/). Part I, Part II In this final part of the encyclical, the treatment and protection of the working class is (...)
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The Church, the Family, the State and the Use of Riches We ended Part One of this guide to Rerum novarum with the encyclical’s reminder to the rich that they would have to answer to God if they were not generous with their riches. The focus of that first part was (...)
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