ECONOMICS AS A DISCIPLINE ‐ The crossroads between John Paul II’s social vision and conservative economic thought

Abstract

John Paul II’s vision of the social economy provides moral guidance to those seeking it. At the same time, it provokes market oriented free enterprise economists by its apparent lack of market understanding. Section one attempts to demonstrate how his vision expressed in Laborem Exercens conflicts with conservative free market economists. Section two deals with the moral logic embedded in conservative economic thought and suggests how John Paul II’s vision outlined in his three encyclicals on the social question enhances this perspective.

Citation

Keating, M.O. and Keating, B.P. (1998), "ECONOMICS AS A DISCIPLINE ‐ The crossroads between John Paul II’s social vision and conservative economic thought", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 25 No. 11/12, pp. 1790-1802. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299810233448