Catholic Economics

Is economics a reliable guide for morality? How should we respond when we are told our policy views are incoherent because we "don't understand economics?" Show Notes We're All Utilitarians Now? - L...

1 Feb 202024min

Vix Pervenit is, in my view, the most important encyclical on usury. Its admonitions against usury are applicable to all of Christendom, so we should all understand it very clearly. I hope I have prov...

28 Jan 202024min

I will be doing an episode or two on Vix Pervenit later this week, so to prepare, here is a reading of that encyclical. Vix Pervenit - His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV, 1745

21 Jan 202015min

Interview with Anthony Stine of the Return to Tradition podcast. Anthony gives a personal perspective on minimum wage work, the gig economy, and the reality many face in today's workforce. Dept of La...

18 Jan 202034min

Recently, California's legislature passed a law effectively banning so-called "gig work" and requiring companies like Uber to treat their contractors as employees. The law went into effect on January ...

6 Jan 202019min

In the various policy debates over trade and industrial policy, the framing is very important. I discuss the tradeoffs between manufacturing employment and output given the trends we've seen in these ...

18 Des 201921min

Levi B joins in to discuss several important reasons for homeschooling. Levi B was homeschooled for 8 years and he and his wife homeschool their children. His experience is enlightening! Show notes: ...

12 Des 201949min

Levi R responds to a short video clip by Johan Norberg on atomistic individualism. He then responds to an article in Reason Magazine that attempts to spin Catholic Social Teaching as really just an ap...

4 Des 201927min