Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics (Studies in Ethics and Economics)

Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics (Studies in Ethics and Economics) by Chafuen, Alejandro A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780739105412.

Most people think that freemarket ideas and theories were first substanially developed in the eighteenth century by figures such as Adam Smith. In this revised edition of Faith and Liberty, Alejandro A. Chafuen illustrates this misconception by examining the sixteenth and seventeenth century writings of a group of Catholic theologians and philosophers, known as the LateScholastics. In this revised ediiton, Chafuen blosters his case by including recent and pertinent material which gives rise to new questions and concerns.