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Samuel Gregg

Dr. Samuel Gregg is director of research at the Acton Institute.  He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory.  He has an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.

He is the author of several books, including Morality, Law, and Public Policy (2000), Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded (2001), On Ordered Liberty (2003), his prize-winning The Commercial Society(2007), The Modern Papacy (2009), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010), Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future (2013), Tea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy and Human Flourishing (2013), For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good (2016), as well as monographs such as A Theory of Corruption (2004), and Banking, Justice, and the Common Good (2005). Several of these works have been translated into a variety of languages.  He has also co-edited books such as Christian Theology and Market Economics (2008), Profit, Prudence and Virtue: Essays in Ethics, Business and Management(2009), and Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good (2012).  He has also written on the thought of St. Thomas More.

He publishes in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public PolicyJournal of Markets & MoralityEconomic AffairsLaw and Investment ManagementJournal des Economistes et des Etudes HumainesNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public PolicyEvidenceAve Maria Law ReviewOxford AnalyticaCommunioJournal of Scottish PhilosophyUniversity BookmanMoreanaForeign Affairs; and Policy.  He is a regular writer of opinion-pieces which appear in publications such as the Wall Street Journal EuropeFirst ThingsInvestors Business DailyWashington Times; American BankerNational ReviewThe StreamPublic DiscourseAmerican SpectatorEl Mercurio; Australian Financial ReviewJerusalem Post; La Nacion, and Business Review Weekly.  His op-eds are also widely published in newspapers throughout Europe and Latin America. He has served as an editorial consultant for the Italian journal, La Societa, as well as American correspondent for the German newspaper Die Tagespost.

He has also been cited in the Holy See’s L’Osservatore RomanoThe New York Times, the Wall Street JournalForbes, the Weekly StandardTime MagazineChristian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker.

In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Member of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 2004.  In 2008, he was elected a member of the Philadelphia Society, and a member of the Royal Economic Society.  In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.  He is the General Editor of Lexington Books’ Studies in Ethics and Economics Series. He also sits on the Academic Advisory Boards of Campion College, Sydney; the La Fundación Burke, Madrid; the Instituto Fe y Libertad; and the Institute of Economic Affairs, London; as well as the editorial boards of the Journal of Markets and Morality and Revista Valores en la sociedad industrial.

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Samuel Gregg: Opening Remarks And Prayer

Samuel Gregg: Introduction of Populism, Markets, and Political Economy

Samuel Gregg: Introduction of William McGurn

Samuel Gregg: The American Tradition and Political Economy

Samuel Gregg: Can the Welfare State be Effectively Limited?

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