Books, Arts & Manners: Scholasticism and the Free Market

Christians for Freedom, by Alejandro A. Chafuen (Ignatius Press, 207 pp., $12.95)

Alejandro Chafuen provides us with valuable new information about the economic views of the late scholastic thinkers, many of them Spanish and early Jesuits (the order was founded in 1540). An Argentinian Catholic who studied under Dr. Hans Sennholz at Grove City College, and is now with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Chafuen concludes that the late scholastics were more inclined toward the free market than we have hitherto been led to suppose. In view of recent episcopal ruminations, decidedly socialistic in nature, this is good news and worth a closer look.

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Christians for Freedom, by Alejandro A. Chafuen (Ignatius Press, 207 pp., $12.95)

Alejandro Chafuen provides us with valuable new information about the economic views of the late scholastic thinkers, many of them Spanish and early Jesuits (the order was founded in 1540). An Argentinian Catholic who studied under Dr. Hans Sennholz at Grove City College, and is now with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Chafuen concludes that the late scholastics were more inclined toward the free market than we have hitherto been led to suppose. In view of recent episcopal ruminations, decidedly socialistic in nature, this is good news and worth a closer look.