Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded

Samuel Gregg is Director of the Centre for Economic Personalism, Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sessional Faculty of the John Paul II Institute for Study of Marriage and the Family, within the Pontifical Lateran University, and Adjunct Scholar, the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, Australia.

Seminaries do an excellent job of raising issues of justice and righteousness with their students. Where theologians often struggle, though, is in a basic understanding of the discipline of economics. This concise and readable book is intended to provide at least some remedy for that lack.... The whole book is written with simplicity, warmth, and a concern for Christian ethics that makes it commendable. If read widely, it would act as an excellent safeguard against the economic embarrassments occasionally uttered by well-meaning Christian public figures.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Part I: Christian Social EthicsChapter 4 Making Sense of EconomicsChapter 5 Ethics and EconomicsChapter 6 The Institutional Dimension: Property, Rule of Law, and the StateChapter 7 Questions for EconomicsChapter 8 Part II: IntroductionChapter 9 Definition of EconomicsChapter 10 PropertyChapter 11 TradeChapter 12 Mutually Beneficial ExchangeChapter 13 Value and Price TheoriesChapter 14 InterventionChapter 15 WagesChapter 16 MoneyChapter 17 Marginal UtilityChapter 18 Unintended ConsequencesChapter 19 ProfitChapter 20 Supply and DemandChapter 21 Division of LaborChapter 22 TaxesChapter 23 Bibliography in Selected ReadingsChapter 24 About the AuthorChapter 25 Suggested Reading List