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WHY DID BENEDICT PULL HIS PUNCHES?

Eugene McCarraher August 10, 2009 - 9:47am

This summer witnessed the publication of Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI's long-awaited encyclical on economics. While much commentary has focused on the letter's implications for social policy, I want to emphasize the challenge it poses to the assumptions of the so-called dismal science. Against the skinflint orthodoxies of...

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Topics: 
ShortTake
Economy
Pope Benedict XVI
Secularism and Modernity
Theology

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Eugene McCarraher is associate professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He is completing The Enchantments of Mammon: Corporate Capitalism and the American Moral Imagination.

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