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Vatican Bank Chief Recommends Austrian Economics

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Vatican’s bank, has denounced the Keynesian economic policies that are wreaking havoc on the Western world, and recommends the book Where Keynes Went Wrong by Austrian School economist Hunter Lewis.  Doesn’t he know it’s heresy to believe in the time preference theory of interest or the heterogeneity of capital? (Thanks to Prof. Harry Veryser for this.)

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  • http://www.mises.org Mechanized

    Makes one wonder how Thomas Stork or those of his ilk would respond to the above.

    Tom, you might also be interested to know that Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is sold at “St. George Catholic Books and Gifts.”

  • http://freemarketanalysis.blogspot.com/ adrian

    I am proud to be Catholic, and your work is making me get ever closer to this fact. Thanks Mr Woods.

  • http://www.dailypaul.com Mike

    Thanks for the info Tom but what do you make of this? Is there any truth it?

    Sorry I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread. Just delete the other one.

    Mike

  • John

    Hurray! Wouldn’t it be awesome if, in some revised edition of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, they essentially state support for the Austrian position? Because let’s face it, the Austrian school is the moral choice. If more Catholics realized this, the world would be a better place.

    Good to see the chief Vatican banker gets it. I hope the Pope, Cardinals and so on have read his article, which I believe was in a recent edition of L’Osservatore Romano.