The philosophy of the Enlightenment and political thought modernity found tough opposition in Roman Catholic Church. Liberalism was associated with Free Masons revolutionary intent. Nonetheless, liberalism economy stimulated some theoretical analysis specific positions terms social economics by This paper presents an encyclical letters other papal documents, as well writings scholars, to elabor...

This paper argues that there is a need to reconstruct new paradigm for poverty policy planning in Africa because Neo-liberalism, Ubuntu ethics and African Socialism as proposed paradigms Africa’s development are untenable. so the above trio sexist, androcentric oblivious structural injustices feminize Africa. The further even Western world, neo-liberal GDP metric has been challenged search alte...

There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the relationship between income inequality and health within nations and between nations. On the latter topic Wilkinson and others believe that, in the advanced capitalist countries, higher income inequality leads to lowered social cohesion which in turn produces poorer health status. I argue that, despite a by-now voluminous literature, not enough...

W hat makes the work of John Kenneth Galbraith vital is that for over twenty-five years he has vigorously opposed the severance of economics from its historical and philosophical moorings. He is not a good economist if we use the methodology and content of contemporary social science as our standards of excellence. Galbraith is more than an economist. He is primarily a reflective intellectual w...