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The Justice and the Economics of Rerum novarum on Land

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Abstract

The authors of Rerum novarum attack socialism and Henry George’s claim that the earth is the common heritage of all persons, without distinguishing between these ideas. While acknowledging that “God has given the earth for the use and enjoyment of the whole human race,” they propose that land is simply the transformed wages of those who worked to buy it, ignoring Aquinas’s assertion that “… a rich man does not act unlawfully if he anticipates someone in taking possession of something which at first was common property, and gives others a share: but he sins if he excludes others indiscriminately from using it.” They presume erroneously that the physical inseparability of land and capital makes them economically inseparable. Their position on land should be rejected.

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Footnotes
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These words appear in Nuesse (1985), 245. The footnote that follows reads, “Giovanni Antonazzi, ed., L‘Enciclica “Rerum Novarum” Testo Authentico e Redazioni Preparatorie dai Documenti Originali (Rome: Edizione di Storia e Letteratura, 1957), 93n. For a summary and comment, see [Moody (1961)], pp. 75–79.”
 
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Metadata
Title
The Justice and the Economics of Rerum novarum on Land
Author
Nicolaus Tideman
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52545-7_10