We present a model of the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous club managed by a specialized hierarchical agency, that pursues the enlargement of the club within given constraints. Religious indulgences are introduced as a way of inducing a self selection of members, based on their attitudes...

This article uses economic categories to show how the reorganization of civil procedure in the case of class action is not merely aimed at providing a more efficient litigation technology, as hierarchies (and company law) might do for other productive activities, but that it also serves to...