Empirical Foundations of the Common Good What Theology Can Learn from Social Science

Daniel K. Finn is Professor of Theology and Clemens Professor of Economics at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is a former president of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Association for Social Economics. His books include Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Contributions of Contemporary Political Science
to an Understanding of the Common Good
Matthew Carnes, S.J.

Chapter 2 What Can Economists Contribute to the Common Good Tradition?
Andrew M. Yuengert

Chapter 3 Public Policy and the Common Good
Mary Jo Bane

Chapter 4 The Contribution of Sociology to Catholic Social Thought and
The Common Good
Douglas V. Porpora

Chapter 5 Contributions of Economic Theory to an Understanding of the
Common Good in Catholic Social Thought
Charles K. Wilber

Chapter 6 Public Service, Public Goods, and the Common Good
Argentina as a Case Study
Gerardo Sanchis Muñoz

Chapter 7 What Can Social Science Teach Catholic Social Thought
About the Common Good?
David Cloutier

Chapter 8 What Theology Should and Should Not Learn
from the Social Sciences about the Common Good
Mary L. Hirschfeld