The Pope and the Economist: Human Action in the Thought of John Paul II and Ludwig Von Mises Stephen Graybill and to sociologists and philosophers

and to sociologists and philosophers

He compares the treatment in John Paul's social encyclicals of three topics: industrial relations

“This book is written especially for those young Catholics who are still open to learning—who sense that something is wrong but are willing to be shown that illiberal church-state regimes are not the solution

For readers who enjoy the writings of African-American intellectuals like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell

The Pope and the Economist: Human Action in the Thought of John Paul II and Ludwig Von Mises Stephen Graybill and to sociologists and philosophersIn this newly translated and revised book Father Jacek Gniadek, SVD, develops a unique synthesis of the thought of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and Pope John Paul II. This theological and moral analysis of the logic of human action informed by a theological vision of the acting person establishes the fundamental social nature of entrepreneurship, private ownership, and the market economy and defines the proper role of both market and state