Tau PublishingA Free and Fraternal Economy
The Franciscan Perspective
by Fr. Martín Carbajo-Núñez, OFM
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-564-7
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-335-3
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-336-0
- Pages
- 246
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound second edition, June 2017
- Language
- English
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About this book
The global financial crisis brought several Western countries to the edge of bankruptcy. Many analysts saw in it more than one more turn of the business cycle: a structural crisis that called into question the whole economic system and the idea of the human person on which it was built.
Martín Carbajo-Núñez, OFM, turns for answers to the Franciscan friars of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who worked to understand, accept and humanize the market economy then taking shape. Some historians credit them with a decisive part in its birth. The friars even founded financial institutions of their own, the Mounts of Piety.
Their answers from yesterday, he shows, can guide the search for a free and fraternal economy today.
Revised and updated from the author’s Crisis económica: Una propuesta franciscana (Madrid, 2013).
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