Economics justice in social Catholicism: the difficult application of natural law

Daniele Corrado and Stefano Solari
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Daniele Corrado: Università di Trieste
Stefano Solari: Università di Padova - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2009, vol. 17, issue 1, 25-45

Abstract: The evolution of the idea of economic justice is presented here to introduce the study of the concept of ‘social justice’ developed by social Catholicism. The latter was introduced and developed in the middle of the nineteenth century by Jesuits within the framework of Neo-Thomistic philosophical thought. The term social Justice was applied to the economic problems of the time and in particular to the ‘social question’, but the concept remained controversial and led to a long debate among the adherents of social Catholicism. We will highlight the connection between the philosophy of law and economics in Neo-Thomistic social economics and the debate that developed around this concept. We conclude by discussing the implications that this view of rights and the law has on economic theorising

Keywords: Social justice; Thomism; economic order; classic natural law; Social Catholicism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A19 B49 K19 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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