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Book Review


Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II. By Kevin E. Schmiesing. (Lanham: Lexington, 2004. xvi, 185 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-7391-0880-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7391-0963-4.)
Studies of Roman Catholic economic thought are notorious for attempting to co-opt markers of church authority—especially papal encyclicals—in the name of investing particular economic perspectives with normative status within the church. As such, Kevin E. Schmiesing's thesis that the economic views of American Catholics in the public arena were "dependent in large measure on factors other than the authors' adherence to the authoritative social teaching of their Church" (p. xiii) held out the promise of a nuanced historical treatment of the topic. . . .
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