On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine: 125 Years of Rerum Novarum

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.