Table of Contents

Introduction: 125 Years of Rerum Novarum.- Chapter 1: An Economist's View on the Work of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and its Influence on the Encyclical Rerum Novarum.- Chapter 2: Solidarism as the Centre of Economy - The Economics of Heinrich Pesch.- Chapter 3: The False Pretensions of the Catholic Social Doctrine - the Critique of the Austrian Catholic Sociologist August M. Knoll.- Chapter 4: Lord Acton and Rerum Novarum.- Chapter 5: Dr. Johannes Antonius Veraart: A Catholic Economist on Rerum Novarum.- Chapter 6: Catholic and Socialist Conceptions of Public Organization of Business in the Netherlands: Their Rise, Joint Implementation and Fall.- Chapter 7: Public Economy (Gemeinwirtschaft) as a Concept of Social Development Policy- Examples of German Authors of the Late 19th Century.- Chapter 8: Re-Shaping the Christian Ethical Tradition- Franz brandts, Leon Harmel and the Role of Christian Entrepreneurs for Rerum Novarum.- Chapter 9: Rerum Novarum and the Taxation of Immovable Property.- Chapter 10: The Justice and Economics of Rerum Novarum on Land.- Chapter 11: 125 Years Rerum Novarum: The Theological Perspective.

About the Author

Jürgen G. Backhaus (*1950), JSD 1976, PhD (Econ) 1985, Professor of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at Erfurt University 2000-2015. Between 1986 and 2000, he has held the chair in Public Economics at Maastricht University. In 2006 he received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Knight’s Cross), in September 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaly (Greece). In 1994 he founded (with Frank H. Stephen) the European Journal of Law and Economics. He has published 60 books and monographs, about 200 articles in refereed journals and book chapters, 28 scholarly notes and 63 reviews. His research interests span economics, but also neighboring disciplines such as law, fiscal sociology and environmental sciences.