1st Edition

The Economic Thought of Hilaire Belloc A Christian Alternative to the Servile State

By Alfonso Díaz Vera Copyright 2024
158 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Hilaire Belloc’s thinking on the economy constitutes, by its originality and acuity, a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing the economic problems of his time and those of our own. Belloc’s main interest as a writer were on economics and history, and his works were praised by economists such as F. A. Hayek or Wilhelm Röpke and political philosophers such as Robert Nisbet and... Read more

Introduction  1. Hilaire Belloc: A spirit contra mundum  2. The Path to the Servile State  3. The Servile State  4. Distributism: An alternative to the servile state  5. Scholastic thought and Bellocian economic theory  6. Belloc and the impossibility of socialism  7. Belloc’s place in the history of economic thought  8. Belloc and our world

Biography

Alfonso Díaz Vera (Ph.D., Rey Juan Carlos University), is a professional economist and Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on the history of economic thought and humanities-based economics.