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Economics and the Moral Order By Joseph Baldacchino
43 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-00-4
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Economics and the Moral Order

This succinct but illuminating book defends the free market, while criticizing a narrowly economistic understanding of man and society. Baldacchino argues that a sound economy has ethical and cultural prerequisites that are integral to its survival. Includes an introduction by Russell Kirk.

Joseph Baldacchino is the President of the National Humanities Institute and Editor of the academic journal Humanitas. For many years he was a Washington reporter and editor, in which capacity he addressed most aspects of national policy and politics but with particular emphasis on ethical and cultural issues. Baldacchino is editor of Educating for Virtue and, with others, the author of Irving Babbitt in Our Time. His present writing project, with others, is a constitutional history of the United States entitled Who We Are: The Story of America’s Constitution.

From the Introduction:

“Any society’s moral order develops from its religion, its phil…

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Educating for Virtue By Claes G. Ryn, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Russell Kirk and Solveig Eggerz
114 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-02-8
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Educating for Virtue

In Educating for Virtue, five scholars address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the relationship between education and the development of moral character. With Essays by Claes G. Ryn, Russell Kirk, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Solveig Eggerz.

Editor Joseph Baldacchino is the President of the National Humanities Institute and Editor of the academic journal Humanitas. For many years he was a Washington reporter and editor, in which capacity he addressed most aspects of national policy and politics but with particular emphasis on ethical and cultural issues. Baldacchino is author of Economics and the Moral Order and, with others, Irving Babbitt in Our Time. His present writing project, with others, is a constitutional history of the United States entitled Who We Are: The Story of America’s Constitution.

From the Foreword:

“If there is a single thread that runs through these essays, it is the recognition of a universal order that tran…

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Literature and the American College: Essays in the Defense of the Humanities By Irving Babbitt
228 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-01-1
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Literature and the American College: Essays in the Defense of the Humanities

“With a comprehensive new introduction by Russell Kirk…a book…so solid in its substance and implications that it barely shows its age…. What Babbitt has to say about the classics, and the ancients, American civilization and character still deserve to be known and pondered by all those interested in education.”–Milton Hindus, Brandeis University
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period 1910 to 1930.

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