Connecting Family, Property, and Liberty

In this episode of Acton Line, Dylan Pahman, Acton research fellow and executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality, interviews Dr. Clara Piano, assistant professor of economics at Austin Peay State University, about her recent paper “Familial Liberty: Property and Family in Late Scholastic Thought,” presented at Acton’s Third Annual Academic Colloquium. Their wide-ranging discussion addresses such questions as: What is the connection between family and property? What insights do late Scholastic theologians have for us today? What does modern “pro-family” policy get wrong? 

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Alejandro Chafuen, “Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics”

Juan de Mariana, “A Treatise on the Alteration of Money”

Frank H. Knight, “Ethics and Economic Reform, I: The Ethics of Liberalism”

Acton Line, “Free Enterprise and the Common Good”

Pope Leo XIII, “Rerum Novarum”

Victor V. Claar and Angela K. Dills, “Claudia Goldin Is the Ideal Academic Researcher”