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 Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics
Ethical foundations for a market economy
Business & Enterprise
Ethical perspectives on enterprise and markets.
Policy & Regulation
Economic choices in a broader ethical context.
Faith & Ethics
Christian thought and the market economy.
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‘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 (...)
The Government Debt Crisis – not just an economic issue
Philip Booth will describe how government debt is creating a looming economic and social crisis. This is especially so when we also consider demographic developments in western and in Asian countries.
