Economic development, as contrasted from “growth” (in the sense of increase in GNP) has been a subject of interest for less than 50 years. Divergent, perhaps even conflicting views, are expressed on the question of what constitutes, or should constitute, the end‐product of economic...

Economic as well as ethical aspects of discrimination and other forms of injustice in the context of a nation’s economy have been discussed by scholars for many decades. However, until relatively recent times, much attention has not been given – especially by economists – to discrimination...

Notes that the 1991 Papal Encyclical, Centesimus Annus , emphasizes the role of justice in the economic and social order of the global economy and that it calls for effective international agencies which would oversee and direct the economy to the common good in relation to the whole human...

To understand John Paul II’s vision of the social economy, it is important to put his writings in a historical perspective. This essay offers a brief survey of Catholic social thought on the topic of justice in the context of international development as reflected in several of the important...