The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it makes a particular point of noting the moral arguments of the market economy and that Catholics are of course perfectly at liberty to support it, its audience is much broader than Catholics alone. Readers of all religious traditions and none at all have praised The Church and the Market, first-place winner in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards, as one of the most compelling and persuasive defenses of capitalism against its critics ever written.
Thomas E. Woods Jr. is the author of theNew York Times bestsellerThe Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. He has written over 150 articles for popular and scholarly periodicals and is a frequent commentator on radio and television.
Thomas E. Woods Jr. is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, creator of the EWTN program "The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization," and host of The Tom Woods Show, a weekday podcast. Find out more at TomWoods.com.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 In Defense of Economics Chapter 3 Prices, Wages, and Labor Chapter 4 Money and Banking Chapter 5 The Economics and Morality of Foreign Aid Chapter 6 The Welfare State, the Family, and Civil Society Chapter 7 The Argument Restated: My Reply to a Critic Chapter 8 Answering the Distributist Critique Chapter 9 In Omnibus, Caritas
