Binding: Paperback
Pages: 191
"The work of Father Percy is a great
resource to help alleviate the problem .Father Percy does us the great favor of
including in his book a review of declarations of the successive popes since
Leo XIII."
—Journal of Markets and Morality
"This is a book for which many have
been waiting. It undermines stereotypes of Catholic thought about free
enterprise and business while simultaneously challenging us to root
entrepreneurship in a richer and deeper understanding of the human person.
Anthony G. Percy brings together good theology, good philosophy, sound
economics, and an appreciation for the full complexity of Catholicism's
positive view of the entrepreneur."
—Robert A. Sirico, Acton Institute
"In Entrepreneurship in the Catholic
Tradition, Anthony G. Percy provides us with a detailed study of the
distinctive contribution to the modern understanding of entrepreneurship
developed by Catholic theologians, philosophers, saints, popes, clergy, and
economists over the centuries. This book is a treasure of information and
provides many useful correctives to much received wisdom on the history of
entrepreneurship."
—Michael Novak, American Enterprise
Institute
Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition is
a theological and historical exploration of the treatment of entrepreneurship,
business, and commerce in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Moving
from Scriptural exegesis to modern papal social encyclicals, Anthony G. Percy
shows how Catholic teaching had developed profound insights into the ultimate
meaning of entrepreneurship and commerce and invested it with theological,
philosophical, and economic meaning that surpasses many conventional religious
and secular interpretations. Entrepreneurship is illustrated as being as much a
potential contributor to all-round integral human flourishing as it is to
economic growth and development. In this sense, Entrepreneurship in the
Catholic Tradition challenges the stereotype of the Catholic Church having a
negative view of economic liberty and the institutions that enhance its
productivity. Instead we discover a tradition in which first millennium
theologians, medieval scholastics, and modern Catholic thinkers have thought
seriously and at length about the character of free enterprise and its moral
and commercial significance.
