Asking what the term Catholic economics might mean strikes some people — too many, actually — as like asking whether there is such a thing as Catholic algebra or Catholic physics. The response is usually, “Don’t you know? Economics has become a science, lotsa numbers, econometrics, blah-blah. It can’t be ‘Catholic’ if it’s just like the law of gravity.” The trouble is: the field of economics, as author and University of Dallas instructor John Médaille has cheerfully pointed out on numerous occasions, is in... Read more