Heinrich Pesch, Solidarity, And Social Encyclicals

Heinrich Pesch, the great German Jesuit economist (1854-1926), developed an economic system around the principle of solidarity. He thereby became one of a small, select group of economists who may be regarded as having actually devised economic systems. Pesch accomplished this in his major work, the Lehrbuch der National?kon? omie, which is also the longest economics text ever written. Despite all of that, his work was soon forgotten by other economists. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church took note of what he had to say in the area of social economics. It has included the principle of solidarity, along with other specific essential ingredients of his solidaristic system prominently and permanently in its social teachings. The reason behind this is because the Church found Pesch 's economic philosophy and principles fully compatible with its own ethical principles and moral theology. Furthermore, it saw the economic order, with which it would not normally concern itself, as desperately in need of moral guidelines. Although Pesch lived a significant portion of his life during the papacy of Leo XIII (1878-1903), most of his own scholarly production came after that pope's pioneer social encyclical, Kerum Novarum, appeared in 1891. Accordingly, the Jesuit scholar referred often to the encyclical in his own works, especially in the 5 volume Lehrbuch, published in successive editions between 1905 and 1926.1 Just as the eminent bishop of Mainz, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811 1877), had influenced the thinking and teachings of Leo XIII, the bearded Jesuit from Cologne had a decisive impact on the social teachings by Roman Catholic popes from Pius XI until Pope John Paul II

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