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Item Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy(2019) Hirschfeld, Mary Lee"The book develops an approach to economics rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. It challenges contemporary assumptions about economics based on the principle of utility, and instead proposes a perspective that, through the emphasis of St. Thomas on the transcendent nature of the human person, suggests to economists that a teleological approach that looks only for material comforts and increased material riches is shortsighted even from an economics perspective. As an alernative it offers a broader perspective in understanding the human person. It goes beyond offering the Church's Social Doctrine in favor or rethinking the field of economics. A book addressed to economists and theologians, it is based on the author's intellectual experience and conversion, going from a Harvard PhD in Economics and professor of Economics at Occidental College, a prestigious university in Los Angeles, to a PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and her personal conversion from a shallow semi-pagan spirituality to Catholicism."