Economic Justice

During the first half of the twentieth century, John A. Ryan developed and promoted moral arguments for reforming the economy of the United States. He was an advocate of minimum wage legislation and child labor restrictions, and he was very much involved in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Closely connected with lawmakers, Ryan's influence has been extensive in American public policy. This volume brings to readers pertinent selections from Ryan's classic works. It will be particularly relevant to today's readers concerned about the place of religious faith in economic policy.The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

John A. Ryan was Professor of Moral Theology and Industrial Ethics at Catholic University in Washington, D. C.

General Editor's Introduction
Introduction: Catholic Social Ethicist and Advocate for Reform
Preface	p. 3
Introduction: The Elements and Scope of the Problem	p. 5
The Landowner's Share of the National Product	p. 11
Private Landownership a Natural Right	p. 15
Defects of the Existing Land System	p. 19
Methods of Reforming Our Land System	p. 25
The Nature and the Rate of Interest	p. 39
Alleged Intrinsic Justifications of Interest	p. 44
Social and Presumptive Justifications of Interest	p. 53
The Nature of Profits	p. 65
The Principle Canons of Distributive Justice	p. 69
Just Profits in Conditions of Competition	p. 76
The Legal Limitation of Fortunes	p. 81
The Duty of Distributing Superfluous Wealth	p. 88
Some Erroneous Theories of Wage Justice	p. 99
The Minimum of Justice: A Living Wage	p. 112
The Problem of Complete Wage Justice	p. 126
Methods of Increasing Wages	p. 136
A New Status for Labor	p. 148
Summary and Conclusion	p. 155
The Basis and Justification of Rights	p. 161
Notes	p. 172
Ryan's Sources	p. 183
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