In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Clara Piano, visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and an affiliate scholar at the Acton Institute. Clara tells the story of how Fr. Robert Sirico, along with Pope St. John Paul II and Michael Novak, inspired her to start thinking through the moral case for the free economy as an undergraduate as well as her trajectory as a scholar. How is the idea that markets are opposed to morality historically naive? Who is doing great research today exploring the relationship between markets and morals? How do you bring your research and values into the classroom? How should religious leaders understand the relationship between morals and markets? What should young people consider when discerning their professional calling and forming relationships and families?

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Clara E. Piano

Economics as an Antidote to Envy | Clara E. Piano

The Economics of the Parables | Fr. Robert Sirico

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy | Fr. Robert Sirico

Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life | Michael Novak

Centesimus Annus (1 May 1991)

An Economic Theory of Economic Analysis: The Case of the School of Salamanca | Clara Jace

Dylan Pahman | Acton Institute

The Political Economy of Distributism | Alexander W. Salter

Hannah's Children | Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

The Fertility Gap and Economic Freedom | Clara E. Piano

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