On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine

1. Introduction
Ursula Backhaus, Günther Chaloupek, Hans A. Frambach

2. An Economist’s View of the Work of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Its Influence on the Encyclical Rerum novarum

Daniel Eissrich

3. Solidarism as the Center of Economy—The Economics of Heinrich Pesch
Hans A. Frambach

4.
Public Economy (“Gemeinwirtschaft”) as a Concept of Social Development Policy—Examples of German Authors of the Late 19th Century
Karl-Heinz Schmidt

5. Lord Acton and Rerum novarum

Frits L. Holthoon

6. The False Pretensions of the Catholic Social Doctrine—The Critique of the Catholic Austrian Sociologist August M. Knoll (1900–1963)
Günther Chaloupek

7. 125Years Rerum novarum—The Theological Perspective
Peter Schallenberg

8. Dr. Johannes Antonius Veraart: A Catholic Economist on Rerum Novarum

Robert W. J. Jansen

9. The Roman Connection: From Rerum Novarum to Corporatism in the Netherlands
Andries Nentjes

10. The Justice and the Economics of Rerum novarum on Land
Nicolaus Tideman

11.
Rerum novarum and Its Principle on the Just Taxation of Immovable Properties
Francesco Forte, Flavio Felice, Elton Beqiraj

12. Practical Wisdom for Social Innovation. How Christian Entrepreneurs Triggered the Emergence of the Catholic Social Tradition in Europe
André Habisch

Keywords: Economics, Economic History, Social Policy, Cultural Economics, Catholicism