Samuel Gregg: 9 books
Tea Party Catholic
The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Targeting core tenets of the Tea Party movement, including political economy and economic history, Samuel Gregg makes the case for a new breed of conservative—the Tea Party Catholic. Long married to the conventional liberal ideologies of the past, American Catholics were largely wed to the political...
On Ordered Liberty
A Treatise on the Free Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2003
Perhaps no issue is more divisive among philosophers, jurists and theologians than the nature of human liberty. Liberty is central to the claims of the Christian Gospel, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the American Revolution. But discussions about the nature of freedom have been characterized...
Becoming Europe
Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal...
For God and Profit
How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
From Christianity's very beginning, it has had a difficult relationship with the world of money. Through developing sophisticated understandings of the nature and wealth-creating capacity of capital, Christian theologians, philosophers, and financiers exerted considerable influence upon the emergence...
The Commercial Society
Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Once relatively confined to parts of Europe and North America, commercial societies are now found in many other cultures and continents. Yet despite the international spread and growth of commercial order, the moral, economic, and legal foundations of commercial society remain poorly understood, especially...
by Samuel Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream
"Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship...
Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good
Perspectives from Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing debt-related troubles there have been widespread calls to put banking and economic activity on a secure ethical foundation, either by regulation or through voluntary reform. In this volume a distinguished set of authors explore various economic,...
Profit, Prudence and Virtue
Essays in Ethics, Business and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Essays on the ethics of business and management.
by Samuel Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The art of creating, managing, loaning, and investing money has always been fraught with moral hazards. Unfortunately, the widespread habit of viewing banking in a less-than positive light has contributed to misunderstanding of a human activity that not only contributes to human prosperity, but also...