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Lehrbuch Der NationalÖkonomie / Teaching Guide to Economics: Volume I/ Book 2: Foundations for Economic Life
| Author: | Pesch, Heinrich Ederer, Rupert J. | |
| Year: | 2002 | |
| Pages: | 444 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-7135-9 978-0-7734-7135-1 | |
| Price: | $259.95 | |
Volume 2 presents the preceding and alternative economic systems (mercantilism, physiocracy, individualistic systems and socialism) in contrast with Pesch's own proposed system: the Solidaristic System of Human Work. There follows the analysis of national wealth and its two principal dispositional bases: natural resources and population (that is the work force).
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This is the first English translation of the works of Heinrich Pesch, SJ (1854-1926). Pesch, a German Jesuit scholar and economist, wrote the longest, most exhaustive economics text ever written, one that deserves to be regarded as a kind of Summa Economica. The five-volume Lehrbuch der Nationalökonomie examines all serious economic thinking up until Pesch’s time, culling what was deficient, retaining what was worthwhile, and filling in what its author perceived to be lacking. The result was a design for an economic system that is opposed to both classically liberal capitalism and state socialism, based instead on Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical premises. Pesch developed many of the basic principles which emerged in the social encyclicals of the Catholic Church.
Table of Contents
IV. The National Economy and Its Organizational Principle
1. Theories about the Stages of Economic Development
2. The Concept: National Economy
3. Individualism
4. Socialism
V. The Study of Economics
1. Theories about the Stages of Economic Development
2. The Concept: National Economy
3. Individualism
4. Socialism
V. The Study of Economics