On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 An Economist’s View of the Work of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Its Influence on the Encyclical Rerum novarum

Chapter 3 Solidarism as the Center of Economy—The Economics of Heinrich Pesch

Chapter 4 Public Economy (“Gemeinwirtschaft”) as a Concept of Social Development Policy—Examples of German Authors of the Late 19th Century

Chapter 5 Lord Acton and Rerum novarum

Chapter 6 The False Pretensions of the Catholic Social Doctrine—The Critique of the Catholic Austrian Sociologist August M. Knoll (1900–1963)

Chapter 8 Dr. Johannes Antonius Veraart: A Catholic Economist on Rerum Novarum

Chapter 9 The Roman Connection: From Rerum Novarum to Corporatism in the Netherlands

Chapter 10 The Justice and the Economics of Rerum novarum on Land

Chapter 11 Rerum novarum and Its Principle on the Just Taxation of Immovable Properties

Chapter 12 Practical Wisdom for Social Innovation. How Christian Entrepreneurs Triggered the Emergence of the Catholic Social Tradition in Europe