Case studies
One question the numbers raise, read through the Catholic and Classics libraries.
Money, prices and the state
Growth, what things cost, what is owed and what is taxed.
- What is economic growth for, and what should it not be asked to do?Economics
- Who bears the cost when prices rise?Economics
- What do borrowers, lenders and the generations after them owe one another?Finance
- What do citizens owe to the common treasury, and how should the burden be shared?Public finance
- What is owed between lender and borrower, and what may a loan cost?Finance
Work, trade and invention
How goods are made, sold and improved, and who works.
- What is owed to those who work, and to those who cannot find work?Economics
- What do peoples owe one another when they trade?Global trade
- Who gains and who is at risk when the world's goods go by sea?Trade
- What does making things by machine give us, and what does it ask of those who make them?Economics
- Who gains and who pays when the price of raw materials moves?Supply
- What is knowledge for, and who should pay for the search?Economics
- Who is left out as the world goes online, and what is the new connection for?Technology
Family, ageing and where we live
Births, the old, the young and the places they live.
- How should a society think about the number of its children?Demographics
- How many of us can the earth sustain, and who is to decide?Demographics
- Who is to care for the old, and how is the burden to be shared?Demographics
- What do the city and the countryside owe each other?Demographics
- How far should women and men share in the schools and councils of a community?Politics
Health, learning and want
What a person needs to live well and to be taught.
People on the move
Those who leave, and those who send help home.
Power, war and peace
How people are governed, defended and set against one another.
Energy and the wider world
The power that runs economies, and what lies beyond them.