Woods Thomas E. Jr. The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy

Lexington Books, 2015 — 274 p. — (Studies in Ethics and Economics). — ISBN: 0739188003 978-0739188002.The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it makes a particular point of noting the moral arguments of the market economy and that Catholics are of course perfectly at liberty to support it, its audience is much broader than Catholics alone. Readers of all religious traditions and none at all have praised The Church and the Market, first-place winner in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards, as one of the most compelling and persuasive defenses of capitalism against its critics ever written.Tenth Anniversary IntroductionIn Defense of Economics
Prices, Wages, and Labor
Money and Banking
The Economics and Morality of Foreign Aid
The Welfare State, the Family, and Civil Society
Answering the Distributist Critique
The Argument Restated
In Omnibus, CaritasAbout the Author