Economics Faculty Publications
Submissions from 2012
(Article) Target should acquire Best Buy, Louis D. Johnston
(News Article) The economics of Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) The myth behind lowering capital-gains taxes, Louis D. Johnston
(News Article) The problem with asking: Are you better off than four years ago?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) What if we dumped the Fed and returned to the gold standard?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) What’s good for Minnesota's businesses isn’t always good for our economy, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Who bears the biggest tax burden in Minnesota?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why Americans want to spend more on health care, Louis D. Johnston
(News Article) Why do we have a state budget mess? Think Ventura years and baby boomers, Louis D. Johnston
(News Article) Why not some fiscal therapy and go over the cliff?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why Rep. Steve Gottwalt’s view of the economy doesn’t make sense, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why SuperValu prospered and how strengths of the company could survive, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why the Minneapolis Fed’s Kocherlakota wants interest rates to rise, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why we don't need to worry about inflation, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) New Year's resolutions for Minnesota's economy, Louis D. Johnston and Susan E. Riley
Submissions from 2011
(Article) Charity and Truth in Business: Profit, Gift and Social Capital, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) Nine Libertarian Heresies that Tempt Neo-Conservative Catholics to Stray from Catholic Social Teaching, Daniel K. Finn
(Book Chapter) Power, Leadership, and the Struggle against Government Corruption, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) A key weakness in Ben Bernanke's view on long-run economic growth, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Does reducing inequality hurt growth? The answer may surprise you, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) How to bring down unemployment: Follow Okun's Law, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Income inequality: Why it took off in recent years, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Learning from Nobel laureates -- and another who should have shared the prize, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Understanding the euro -- and the German dilemma, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) What GDP doesn't tell us about our well-being, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) What President Obama should say tonight, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) What the heck is economics?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why do we have so much income inequality?, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why falling unemployment doesn't always mean rising employment, Louis D. Johnston
(Article) Why Minnesotans should care about the euro, Louis D. Johnston
Submissions from 2010
(Article) The Morality of Markets: A Response to Kenneth R. Melchin, Daniel K. Finn
(Book Chapter) Theology and Sustainable Economics, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) The Promise of Interdisciplinary Engagement: Christian Ethics and Economics as a Test Case, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2009
(Book Chapter) Moral Values and the Rules of International Trade, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) The Priority of Labor over Capital: Some Needed Extensions, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2008
(Article) Distribution of Environmental Costs and Benefits, Additional Distortions, and the Porter Hypothesis, Saha Shrawantee and Robert Mohr
Submissions from 2007
(Article) Continuing the Dialogue on Markets and Morality, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2005
(Book Chapter) Commentary on Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum), Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2003
(Article) Learning What It Really Costs: Teaching Business Ethics with Life-Cycle Case Studies, Joseph R. DesJardins and Ernest Diedrich
(Article) The Foundations of Economic Personalism: Promise and Peril, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) The Moral Ecology of Markets: On the Failure of the Amoral Defense of Markets, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2001
(Book Chapter) Catholic Social Thought on Property: An Urgent Need for Extension and Renewal, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 2000
(Article) Creativity as a Problem for Moral Theology: John Locke's 99 Percent Challenge to the Catholic Doctrine of Property, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) On the Choice of Method in Economics: Options for Humanists. A Response to Gregory Gronbacher, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) On the Rationale for Third World Debt Relief, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1999
(Article) The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right Nor Left, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1998
(Book Chapter) Discerning the Causes of Globalization, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) John Paul II and the Moral Ecology of Markets, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1997
(Article) Institutional Processes from John R. Commons to Michael Walzer: An Image of the Market as a Sphere of Human Interaction, Daniel K. Finn
(Book Chapter) Morality, Markets, and Government: The Structure of a Christian Moral Assessment of Economic Systems, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) Valuing the Future: On the Ethics and Economics of Discounting Future Events in Public Policy, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1995
(Book Chapter) The Four Problems of Economic Life, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1994
(Book Chapter) Economic Order, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) Employment in the US: Public Discourse and Longterm Trends, Daniel K. Finn
(Article) International Trade and Sustainable Community: Religious Values and Economic Arguments in Moral Debates, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1993
(Book Chapter) Poverty and Prosperity in Global Economics: Making Sense of Conflicting Claims, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1992
(Article) The Meanings of Money: A View From Economics, Daniel K. Finn
(Book Chapter) Basic procedures for the computation of output and inputs from the Parker Gallman sample, including a procedure for the elimination of defective observations, John F. Olson
(Book Chapter) Clock time versus real time: A comparison of the lengths of the Northern and Southern agricultural work years, John F. Olson
(Book Chapter) The occupational structure of Southern plantations during the late antebellum era, John F. Olson
Submissions from 1989
(Book Chapter) Self-Interest, Markets and the Four Problems of Economic Life, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1988
(Book Chapter) Economic Individualism and the Prospects for Civilizing Enterprise, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1987
(Article) When Are Economic Explanations Persuasive? A View from Social Economics, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1986
(Book Chapter) Contributions of Orthodox Economics to Ethical Reflection, Daniel K. Finn
(Book Chapter) The Church and the Economy in the Modern World, Daniel K. Finn
Books from 1985
Toward a Christian Economic Ethic: Stewardship and Social Power, Prentiss L. Pemberton and Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1984
(Book Chapter) Ethical Dimensions of the Debate on Economic Planning, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1982
(Article) The Ethical Orientations of Schools of Economic Thought, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1979
(Article) Objectivity in Economics: On the Choice of a Scientific Method, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1977
(Article) A Note on the Generality of Human Behavior and Economic Philosophy, Daniel K. Finn
Submissions from 1976
(Article) Norm and Method in Normative Economics, Daniel K. Finn