The Economic Role of the State Maritain first published in 1952

first published in 1952

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century

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The Economic Role of the State Maritain first published in 1952By William Aylott Orton Introduction by J. Daniel Hammond, Ph. D. The Economic Role of the State explores and explicates those fundamental principles of a government in liberal society which run deeper than supply and demand or any other economic theories. These principles are philosophical and anthropological in nature, concerning what humans are and what human lives are about, both individually and socially. Much of economics has lost vital