Contributions of German and American jesuits to economics: The last 100 years |
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Authors: | Edward J O'Boyle |
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Institution: | (1) Mayo Research Institute, Azirona, USA |
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Abstract: | This article focuses on the contributions of six economists schooled in the Jesuit tradition. Four are Jesuit priests: Heinrich
Pesch and Oswald von Nell-Breuning who are German, and Bernard Dempsey and Joseph Becker who are American. Two others, Goetz
Briefs and William Waters, are lay persons who are referred to as “Jesuits without collars.” Five have direct ties to one
another. Von Nell Breuning was a student of Pesch, as was Briefs. Waters was a student of Briefs, and Dempsey was influenced
by Pesch and von Nell-Breuning. All five are solidarist economists who think about economics and economic affairs in a distinct
way which originates with Pesch. Today they would be called personalist economists. The distinctive work of these six Jesuits
is barely visible in the ranks of academic economists. Their contributions should be highlighted before they are lost forever
to those who sense there is something inadequate about mainstream economics. |
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