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I don't agree that "Centesimus Annus" endorses a "market economy" ideology.
In particular, due also to the specific historical moment (1991), Joan Paul
II was critical of the collectivistic economy, but the central issues of
common good and the ethics of virtues are not consistent with the main
theoretical element of a market economy, that is the common good as
unintended consequence of people acting for individual self-interest.
Furthermore, Benedict XVI with his "Deus Charitas est" claims a central role
of the State intervention in the economy, and is quite critical of the free
market economy. In general the catholic social thought is not against the
market (being the market economy an "invention" of the Christianitas), but
it does not endorse any particular ideology (included liberalism), although
people like Micheal Novak think that this link between Christianity and
liberalism actually exists. Novak, however, does not represent the thought
of the Church, nor is the mainstream among catholic economists and social
scientists (at least in Europe).
Luigino Bruni
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