This book, perhaps startlingly, is about finance from a Christian point
of view, taking its start from the Gospels and moving forward to modern
Catholic Social Teaching and today's opaque money markets, pausing along
the way to delve into the origins of finance in the Christian Middle
Ages. Not only those with a Christian orientation, but anyone looking
for a coherent, moral view of finance will profit from its keen
insights.
Markets represent free, responsible interaction among human beings, and
for this reason their functioning cannot escape close scrutiny in view
of moral duty and the common good-precisely the sort of scrutiny this
work offers in abundance. As former CEO of financial institutions,
Chairman of the French Association of Catholic Economists, member of the
French Catholic Academy, seasoned financial practitioner, and scholar of
Catholic social teaching, Pierre de Lauzun is uniquely suited to this
task.
The French edition of this book was awarded the 2015 International Prize
of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation by the Vatican.