Students will learn the foundational principles of economics, the relationship between the Church and the history of economic and social development, key aspects of Thomistic philosophy and theology, and the principles advanced in the foundational documents of Catholic Social Teaching.
Lecture Notes:*
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4
- Lecture 5
- Lecture 6
- Lecture 7
- Lecture 8
- Lecture 9
- Lecture 10
- Lecture 11
- Lecture 12
- Lecture 13
- Lecture 14
- Lecture 15
- Lecture 16
- Lecture 17
- Lecture 18
- Lecture 19
- Lecture 20
- Lecture 21
- Lecture 22
* At the moment, these lecture notes are a work in progress, often containing unedited material from my sources, a list of which I am still compiling. Look for updates by the end of the Fall 2024 semester!
List of Sources (Incomplete):
- Reality: a Thomistic Synthesis, by Fr. Garigou-Lagrange, OP
- https://www.simplycatholic.com/introduction-to-eschatology/
- Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 14, Vatican City 2008. www.pass.va/content/dam/scienzesociali/pdf/acta14/acta14-hittinger.pdf
- Dr. Margaret Blume Freddoso: conversations and notes.
- John Paul II: Sol.Rei.Soc., 33
- J.R.R. Tolkien: On Fairy Stories
- Saint Augustine of Hippo: De Doctrina Christiana
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
- “The WEIRDEST People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, by Joseph Henrich. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020.
- Frederick Engels, 1877
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Gode, Dhananjay K., and Shyam Sunder. “Allocative efficiency of markets with zero-intelligence traders: Market as a partial substitute for individual rationality.” Journal of political economy 101.1 (1993): 119-137.