Defining a Good: The Intersection of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Carl Menger

01/11/2023 Connor Mortell

The roots of Austrian economics go back to the great theologian Thomas Aquinas, whose view of what constitutes a good was a prototype of Menger’s pathbreaking theory of the good.

Original Article: “Defining a Good: The Intersection of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Carl Menger”

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