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Wendell Berry
The Idea of a Local Economy

Don Boland
Capitalism & Democracy
Capitalism – its definition
A Case of Rotten Apples
The Reform of Taxation

Silvano Borruso
Mammon from Croesus (6th Century B.C.) to Gesell (1862-1930)

William T. Cavanaugh
The Unfreedom of the Free Market

Dorothy Day
Aims & Purposes of the Catholic Worker Movement
The Mystery of the Poor

Dalton Garis
Treatment of Market Risk in Islam

Lorna Gold
The Roots of the Focolare Movement's Economic Ethic

Lorna Gold
The Roots of the Focolare Movement's Economic Ethic

John Kanu
Sierra Leone Chesterton Center

D. Stephen Long
Charity and Justice : Christian Economy and the Just Ordering of the Commandments

William F. May
The Religious Underpinnings of the Marketplace

John C. Médaille
Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching

Kamran Mofid
Globalization with Compassion

George Monbiot
Arguments for Conservation

John T. Pawlikowski
John Paul II and the Vatican on the Global Market Economy

Dave Taylor
Self-Subsistence and Subsidiarity

Michael Tomko
Discrete Metaphors: Wendell Berry and the Demands of Local Ecology

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams
Environment Lecture: "Ecology and Economy"