In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Stephen Barrows, chief operating officer at the Acton Institute, about the relationship between Catholic Social Teaching and economics. In what sense is economics a science? How does Catholic Social Teaching relate to social science? How well has the Catholic Church integrated the insights of economics into its social teaching? What can economists learn from Catholic Social Teaching? How does the Acton Institute apply the best insights of economists vis-à-vis Catholic Social Teaching in service of the common good?

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Rerum Novarum | Pope Leo XIII 

Pope Francis’ Plea for Migrants and Acton’s Core Principles | Stephen Barrows

Labor Economics and the Development of Papal Social Encyclicals | Stephen Barrows

CORE: Economic Way of Thinking | Anne Rathbone Bradley

The Call of the Entrepreneur—Full Movie | Ed O’Brien | Peter Boettke | George Gilder

The Humane Economist: A Wilhelm Röpke Reader | Dan Hugger, Editor

A Value Judgment on Value Judgments (1941) | Wilhelm Röpke

A Value Judgment on A Value Judgment on Value Judgments | Samuel Gregg

Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt

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