The Problem of Thought Posed by the Creation of the Bank of England -- The Theory of Interest and the Natural Right -- From Savings to Financial Regulation -- Excursus -- From the Credit Function to the Institution of Money -- Money, Pledge and Natural Right -- The Par Value and The Monetary and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Jefferson’s Laws of Nature -- Chapter 3. From Natural Law to Natural Inferiority -- Chapter 4. Seasteading and Polycentric Law -- Chapter 5. Justice Holmes and Pragmatic Pluralism -- Chapter 6. Pragmatic Conservatism -- Chapter 7. Dissenting Opinions...

The question whether it is possible to be both a Humean and a contractarian arises from the interpretation of Hume as a theorist of spontaneous order, a theory that is usually taken to be incompatible with contractarianism. I argue that this interpretation is unconvincing and anachronistic. The...

The present paper is an exercise to sociologically recover a story reported in a travel diary of a Western diplomat, who was passing through Moldova, at the end of the eighteenth century, where there are three characters belonging to three different cultures: a Moldovan, a Turkish and a French....

Статья посвящена рассмотрению концепции права и правосознания И.А. Ильина с позиции условий их оптимального развития. Анализируя философско-правовые и...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Childhood and Education -- A True European -- Doctrines of Political Economy -- Diffusion of Pufendorf's Economic Ideas -- Early French Philosophers and Pufendorf --...

Freiheit ohne innere Bindung? / Paul Kirchhof -- Recht un d Gerechtigkeit : zum aristotelisch-thomistischen Naturrechtsverständnis / Horst Ehmann -- Ohne die Person ist alles nichts : Person und Gesellschaft in der Sozialverkündigung Johannes Pauls II und Benedikts XVI / Lothar Roos -- " Was...

The paper suggests several ways to rediscover the legacy of early modern and classical natural law of the 18th century in contemporary legal thought through the joint efforts of legal history and legal theory with particular reference to the domain of contract law. Additionally, the paper...

The paper examines the inconspicuous influence of the legacy of the classical natural law of the 18th century on Russian dogmatic jurisprudence of civil law, taking as an example the authoritative “Course on civil law” (1868-1880) by Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Despite the dogmatic purpose of...

The set of rules originated from natural reason constitutes what we call natural in an objective sense or simply natural law. Consequently, to support the existence of a “natural right” means to support the idea that there are just things that are so (just) not only in virtue of an agreement...

The paper starts from the argument that, at present, there are two opposite perspective on the relationship between ethics and capitalism, namely: on the one hand, it is the interpretation offered by the neoclassical school of economic thought (mainstream economics) and, on the other hand, it is...

Статья посвящена рассмотрению наиболее известных российских теоретико-правовых и философско-правовых концепций правосознания. Анализируются основные...

Looking at the modern events shouldn't we claim that it is impossible to create the positive order of the world there where the human souls are running wild? This strict but at the same time full of realism statement of the Head of the Catholic Church taken from the encyclical on the Christian...

The exact content of the relation between dignity and law has not been fully clarified yet. We only know that, although it has been used since antiquity, the notion entered international legislation and national constitutions only after WWII. Since then, the law uses the term, but it does not...

The life course and doctrinal of the theologian-jurist Domingo de Soto, a senior member of the School of Salamanca, elapses during the heyday of the Habsburg dynasty. From his privileged vantage point of the influential Convent of San Esteban as well as his condition as professor of Theology at...

The first generation of Catholic social economists, which also included some moral philosophers, put forward a coherent view of economic problems, according to natural law and to the Gospel of the Catholic Church. They studied the causes of the increasingly unequal distribution of income in the...

The new legal definition of the offense as provided by the Romanian Penal Code (Art. 15) from 2009 refers to a deed that complies with a statutory description, is culpable, unjustified and imputable to the person who committed it. The initial Draft proposal to eliminate the mention about...

In our four parts intended study, we will try to give a brief account on three of the pivotal perspectives on property as developed and operated by maybe the most coherent and self consistent liberal school of economics and law: the Austrian School (AS). 

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand why the neo-Thomist natural law approach to social economics does not represent a trustworthy epistemological reference for the current social economists but, rather, definitively belongs to the past history of economics....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand why the neo-Thomist natural law approach to social economics does not represent a trustworthy epistemological reference for the current social economists but, rather, definitively belongs to the past history of economics....

Cultural diversity and globalization bring about a tension between universal ethics and local values and norms. Simultaneously, the current globalization and the existence of an increasingly interconnected world seem to require a common ground to promote dialog, peace, and a more humane world....

During the last decade corporate reputation as one of the central efforts of corporate citizenship behavior has gained increasing attention in scholarly research, as has the way that reputation can serve as an instrument for business purposes. This poses the question of how such reputation will...

Cultural diversity is an inescapable reality and a concern in many businesses where it can often raise ethical questions and dilemmas. This paper aims to offer suggestions to certain problems facing managers in dealing with cultural diversity through the inspiration of Thomas Aquinas. Although...