tailieunhanh - History of Economic Analysis part 78

History of Economic Analysis part 78. At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter-one of the major figures in economics during the first half of the 20th century-was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. A complete history of humankind's theoretical efforts to understand economic phenomena from ancient Greece to the present, this book is an important contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics. | History of economic analysis 732 other simple formulae to offer. I have none and must content myself with pointing out that we have been looking at the roots of modern totalitarianism. Quite different from this in nature but equally hostile to economic and political liberalism in our sense was another movement that is much easier to define because it defined itself. We adopt for brevity s sake the usual but misleading name for it Christian Socialism. Also for brevity s sake we confine ourselves to the Roman Catholic branch of it which was the only one to form great independent parties like the German Center party that present a unique feature they are held together exclusively by the religious allegiance of their members who for the rest differ in economic interests and political attitudes as much as it is possible to differ through the whole range from extreme conservatism to extreme radicalism and yet co-operate effectively. Throughout the period the Catholic Church was on the continent of Europe the object of legislative and administrative attacks from hostile governments and parliaments in England hostility did not go beyond violent talk about Vaticanism which is what might have been expected in a predominantly liberalistic world. What could not have been expected is that these attacks everywhere ended in retreat and that they left the Catholic Church stronger than it had been for centuries. Political Catholicism arose from a renascence of religious Catholicism. Looking back we see not merely reassertion of the Catholic standpoint by people who had never abandoned it we see also a change of attitudes among people who had around 1900 it was a common observation to make that in a Catholic family the old and elderly were laicist and liberal and the youngsters believers and clerical. This is one of the most significant patches of color in our picture. But for the purposes of this book another fact is of still greater importance. Political Catholicism from the first