Journal of Markets & Morality (30 issues)

by Center for Economic Personalism; Acton Institute

Publishers:

Center for Economic Personalism; Acton Institute

, 1998–2012

Overview

Journal of Markets & Morality is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. The journal promotes intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives.

Key Features

• Hundreds of articles, book reviews, and editorials from diverse Christian perspectives
• Modern scholarship that addresses modern economic conditions
• Articles integrate classic and modern theologians’ writings, including Abraham Kuyper, John Calvin, and Pope Benedict XVI

Featured Contributors

• Abraham Kuyper
• David W. Hall
• Herman Bavinck
• Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
• Craig L. Blomberg
• Avery Cardinal Dulles
• Thomas C. Behr
• Daniel K. Finn
• Stephen J. Grabill
• Edward J. O’Boyle
• Calvin Seerveld
• Edward W. Younkins
• Mark Pennington
• Julio H. Cole
• Thomas A. Hemphill
• Anthony B. Bradley
• Clifford F. Thies
• Charles McDaniel
• Patricia Donohue-White
• and more!

Product Details

• Title: Journal of Markets & Morality
• Publisher: Acton Institute
• Volumes: 15
• Issues: 30

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 15, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2012

Some of the articles include:

• “Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy of Economics” by Joost Hengstmengel
• “Should Students Be Encouraged to Pursue Graduate Education in the Humanities?” by William Pannapacker
• “The Moral Meanings of Markets” by Ryan Langrill and Virgil Henry Storr
• “Private Property, Self-Regulation, and Just Price: A Response to Philip Booth and Samuel Gregg” by Daniel K. Finn

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 15, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2012

Some of the articles include:

• “Business and the Development of Christian Social Thought” by Jordan J. Ballor
• “Libertarianism and Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration” by Bridget Kratz and Walter E. Block
• “Neither Capitalism nor Socialism: A Biblical Theology of Economics” by Craig L. Blomberg
• “Ownership and Property in the Old Testament Economy” by Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 14, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2011

Some of the articles include:

• “Nine Libertarian Heresies Tempting Neoconservative Catholics to Stray from Catholic Social Thought” by Daniel K. Finn
• “Marching for Morals: Early Struggles in the Dutch Christian Worker Movement” by Peter van Dam
• “The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878–1903) and the Encyclical Rerum Novarum” by Joseph M. de Torre
• “Christ and the Needy (1895)” by Abraham Kuyper

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 14, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2011

Some of the articles include:

• “James M. Buchanan on the Ethics of Public Debt and Default” by James E. Alvey
• “In Praise of Industry: Early Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Work” by John M. Yeats
• “The Political Economy of Economic Education: The Moral Dimensions” by Dwight R. Lee and Mark C. Schug
• “Labor Economics and the Development of Papal Social Encyclicals” by Stephen P. Barrows

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 13, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2010

Some of the articles include:

• “Printed Source and Digital Resource in Economics and Theology” by Jordan J. Ballor
• “Is Some Form of Secularism the Best Foundation for Christian Engagement in Public Life?” by Jonathan Malesic
• “Distributive Justice and Subsidiarity: The Firm and the State in the Social Order” by Joseph Burke
• “General Biblical Principles and the Relevance of Concrete Mosaic Law for the Social Question Today (1891)” by Herman Bavinck

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 13, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2010

Some of the articles include:

• “Global Economic Crisis” by Stephen J. Grabill
• “Echoes of Aristotle in Romans 2:15–15: Or, Maybe Abimelech Was Not So Bad After All” by C. John Collins
• “Democracy, Humane Economics, and a Culture of Enterprise” by Gerson Moreno-Riano
• “A Christian Perspective on the Joint Stock Company” by Cara Beed and Clive Beed

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 12, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2009

Some of the articles include:

• “How Should Christians Be Stewards of Art?” by Nathan Jacobs
• “Taxation and Legal Plunder in the Thought of Frédéric Bestiat” by Christopher Todd Meredith
• “Getting into Hot Water: Evangelicals and Global Warming” by Benjamin B. Phillips
• “C. S. Lewis and the Meaning of Freedom” by Steven Gillen

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 12, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2009

Some of the articles include:

• “Protestant Social Thought” by Stephen J. Grabill
• “Poverty, Dignity, Economic Development, and the Catholic Church” by Jennifer Dirmeyer, Paolo Revelo, and Walter E. Block
• “Magnanimity: Aquinas’ Examination of the Aristocratic Virtue” by Keith Aaron Boozer
• “Social Justice and Economic Order According to Natural Law” by Daniele Corrado and Stephano Solari

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 11, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2008

Some of the articles include:

• “The Production of Business Ethics” by Guido Hulsmann
• “Commentary on Psalm 15 (1551)” by Wolfgang Musculus
• “Subprime Lending and Social Justice: A Biblical Perspective” by William C. Wood
• “Hope Amid Financial Calamity” by Stephen J. Grabill

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 11, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2008

Some of the articles include:

• “The State of the Question in Religion and Economics” by Jordan J. Ballor
• “Slippery When Wet: The Real Risk in Business” by Surendra Arjoon
• “The National Economy and the Religious Personality (1909)” by Sergey Bulgakov
• “Professional Ethics and Complicity in Wrongdoing” by Gregory Mellema

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 10, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2007

Some of the articles include:

• “John Paul II’s Challenges to the Social Sciences” by Mary Ann Glendon
• “Unrighteous Stewards in Biblical and Modern Times” by Jonathan E. Leightner and Pamela Z. Jackson
• “On Buying and Selling (1605)” by Leonardus Lessius, SJ
• “Should Business Be Responsible for Employee Health Care?” Donald P. Condit

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 10, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2007

Some of the articles include:

• “Can Social Justice Be Achieved?” by Arnaud Pellissier Tanon and José Manuel Moreira
• “On Exchanging Money (1499)” by Thomas De Vio Cardinal Cajetan
• “The Claim for Secularization as a Contemporary Utopia” Jan Klos
• “Ideas, Associations, and the Making of Good Cities” by Robert Driscoll

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 9, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2006

Some of the articles include:

• “Germany’s Social Market Economy and the New Systems Competition” by Karl Farmer
• “The Vision of Deuteronomy 15 with Regard to Poverty, Socialism, and Capitalism” by Andrew Schein
• “The Importance of the Penultimate: Reformed Social Thought and the Contemporary Critiques of the Liberal Society” by David VanDrunen
• “Corporate Welfare” by Jeanette Delery and Walter E. Block

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 9, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2006

Some of the articles include:

• “The Economics of Information Control” by Stephen J. Grabill
• “The Dynamics of Faith-Based Policy Initiatives” by Gerson Moreno-Riano
• “Tax and Theology” by Richard Teather
• “Can Neoclassical Economics Handle a Scriptural View of Forgiveness?” by John N. Oswalt and Victor V. Claar

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 8, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2005

Some of the articles include:

• “The Digital Divide” by Stephen J. Grabill
• “The ‘Eschatological Principle’ in Catholic Social Thought” by Mark Lowery
• “The Universal Destination of Goods: The Ethics of Property in the Theory of a Christian Society” by Manfred Spieker
• “What Bearing, If Any, Does the Christian Doctrine of Providence Have Upon the Operation of the Market Economy?” by Michael T. Dempsey

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 8, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2005

Some of the articles include:

• “Treatise on Money” by Luis de Molina, SJ
• “Secular Fundamentalism and Democracy” by Richard Ekins
• “What Profits for a Man to gain: Just (the) Price (of the Soul)” by Jude Chua Soo Meng
• “Scholarly Journals and the Flow of Information” by Stephen J. Grabill

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 7, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2004

Some of the articles include:

• “A Biblical/Theological Case for Basic Sustenance for All” by Kent Van Til
• “Christian Obligations: ‘The Poor You Will Always Have with You’” by John Bolt
• “The Influence of Kant on Christian Theology: A Debate about Human Dignity and Christian Personalism” by Derek S. Jeffreys
• “Genovese Sermon” Albertanus of Brescia

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 7, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2004

Some of the articles include:

• “Separation of Food and State” by Mark Ahlseen
• “A Sphere Around the Person: Antonio Rosmini on Property” by Alberto Mingardi
• “Private Initiative, Entrepreneurship, and Business in the Teachings of Pius XII” Anthony G. Percy
• “Commentary on the Resolution of Money” by Martín de Azpilcueta

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 6, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2003

Some of the articles include:

• “Making Christianity Relevant to Economic Scholarship” by James Henderson and John Pisciotta
• “The Economist, the Rabbis, and Crime” by Paul Knepper
• “Is Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy an Adequate Foundation for the Market Economy?” by James Halteman
• “Connections Between the Austrian School of Economics and Christian Faith: A Personalist Approach” by Paul A. Cleveland

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 6, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2003

Some of the articles include:

• “Civic Art and the City of God: Traditional Urban Design and Christian Evangelism” by Philip Bess
• “Three Concepts for Political Liberty” by Kyle Swan
• “To What Extent and in What Ways Should Government Bodies Regulate Urban Planning?” by Charles C. Bohl
• “On the Law in General” by D. Hieronymus Zanchi

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 5, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2002

Some of the articles include:

• “A Treatise on the Alteration of Money” by Juan de Mariana, SJ
• “Aquinas and Hayek on the Limits of Law: A Convergence of Ethical Traditions” by David VanDrunen
• “Common Ground Between the Philosophies of Christianity and Libertarianism” by D. Eric Schansberg
• “The Culture of Consumerism: A Catholic and Personalist Critique” by Eduardo J. Echeverria and Gregory R. Beabout

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 5, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2002

Some of the articles include:

• “A Century of Christian Social Thought” by Mark A. Noll
• “Human Dignity, Personal Liberty: Themes from Abraham Kuyper and Leo XII” by Michael Novak
• “Religious Freedom and Pluralism” by Avery Cardinal Dulles
• “Calvinism, Catholicism, and the American Experiment: What is the Question?” by John Bolt

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 4, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2001

Some of the articles include:

• “Nature and Grace: The Theological Foundations of Jacques Maritain’s Public Philosophy” by Eduardo J. Echeverria
• “The Context of Economic Personalism” by Kevin E. Schmiesing
• “The Concept of Transition” by Enrico Colombatto
• “The Finn-Gronbacher Debate” by Gabriel J. Zanotti

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 4, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2001

Some of the articles include:

• “Would the Absence of Copyright Laws Significantly Affect the Quality and Quantity of Literary Output?” by Julio H. Cole
• “Does Morality Hamper the Market Process? A Reappraisal of the Mises Thesis” by David L. Prychitko and Scott A. Beaulier
• “The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements, and Theft” by Walter E. Block
• “Morality and Character Development: The Roles of Capitalism, Commerce, and Corporation” by Edward W. Younkins

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 3, no. 2

• Publication Date: 2000

Some of the articles include:

• “Environmental Theology: A Judeo-Christian Defense” by Peter J. Hill
• “Human Rights and the Rights of Nature” by Thomas Sieger Derr
• “Are Strong Protections of Private Property Rights Necessary for Species Preservation?” by Frederick W. Krueger
• “Liberty and the Place of Man in Nature” by William C. Dennis

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 3, no. 1

• Publication Date: 2000

Some of the articles include:

• “Christian Ethics and the Teaching of Introductory Economics” by John E. Stapleford
• “Grand Theft Auto: The Immorality of Business Subsidies” by Paul A. Cleveland
• “Do Corporations Have Any Responsibility Beyond Making a Profit?” by Norman P. Barry
• “Language, Self, and Business Ethics” by Raymond N. MacKenzie

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 2, no. 2

• Publication Date: 1999

Some of the articles include:

• “T. S. Eliot’s Neo-Medieval Economics” by Michael R. Stevens
• “Do Market Economies Allocate Resources Optimally?” by Dwight D. Murphey
• “The Ethics of Capitalism” by Jesús Huerta de Soto
• “What Is a ‘Just Price’?” by Christian Michel

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 2, no. 1

• Publication Date: 1999

Some of the articles include:

• “Does the Free Market Undermine Culture?” by D. Eric Schansberg
• “Toward the Definition of Economic Rights” by Carmine Gorga
• “A Short History of Economics As a Moral Science” by James E. Alvey
• “Liberty and the Virtue of Prudence: A Catholic Perspective” by Todd R. Flanders

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 1, no. 2

• Publication Date: 1998

Some of the articles include:

• “The Necessity of Free Trade” by Walter E. Block
• “Is Economics a Moral Science?” by Ricardo F. Crespo
• “Economic Religion Versus Christian Values” by Robert H. Nelson
• “Truth in Economic Subjectivism” by Gloria L. Zúniga

Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 1, no. 1

• Publication Date: 1998

Some of the articles include:

• “Abraham Kuyper and the Holland-America Line of Liberty” by John Bolt
• “Matrimony and Microeconomics: A Critique of Becker’s Analysis of Marriage” by Christopher Westley
• “The Need for Economic Personalism” by Gregory M. A. Gronbacher
• “Are Antitrust Laws Immoral?” by Jeffrey Tucker