Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He writes and speaks regularly on morality and economics. He is the author of many books including, among others, On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Modern Papacy (2009), Wilhelm R�pke's Political Economy (2010), Becoming Europe (2013), and his prize-winning The Commercial Society (2006). He is published in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Markets & Morality; Economic Affairs; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; Library of Law and Liberty; First Things; Ave Maria Law Review; Oxford Analytica; Communio; Journal of Scottish Philosophy; University Bookman; Foreign Affairs; and Policy. His opinion-pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal Europe; American Banker; Investors Business Daily; National Review; Public Discourse; American Spectator; The Federalist; Australian Financial Review; and Business Review Weekly. He holds an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.
" For God and Profit is a formidable book, packed with interesting
and regularly unacknowledged and unknown historical information,
especially about the contribution of Christian thinking to the
development of banking, the rise of the markets and Western
prosperity. It is also closely argued with Christian and natural
law categories of right and wrong being used to evaluate the
economies and financial systems of today and yesterday." --Cardinal
George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Vatican
City
"Christians have long been suspicious of the worlds of finance and
capital. But Samuel Gregg has produced just the book we need. It is
ecumenical, patient in explaining concepts and practices that
Christians of all confessions should know, characterized by logic
and clear moral analysis, and attentive to the contributions made
by Christians throughout history to the development of modern
finance systems. At a time when finance not only seems bereft of a
moral compass but also to be lurching from crisis to crisis, this
is a book sorely needed by Christians today." --Michael Novak,
author, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
"In his typically erudite fashion, Samuel Gregg has successfully
synthesized an understanding of two topics which are, regretfully,
too often seen as being in opposition to one another: God and
finance. Grounding his analysis in a narrative which is equal parts
modern economics and morality, he leaves the reader thankful for
new and at times surprising insights." --Frank J. Hanna III,
entrepreneur, merchant banker, author, What Your Money Means
"Many relationships between people today are based on finance and
the exchange of financial value. Often the potential of these
relationships and institutions are lost and damaged through harmful
action and misguided thought. Both are challenged by Samuel Gregg
in this timely, thoughtful and accessible book. He seeks not only
to analyse and critique but to exhort, and his appeal is to reason
and the Judeo-Christian tradition. His breadth of scholarship and
understanding of contemporary finance make this book a relevant and
insightful resource for thinkers and practitioners alike." --Peter
S. Heslam, Transforming Business, University of Cambridge
"Christians have been indoctrinated with a distrust of money and
its effects on society. This translates into the belief that money
is inherently evil. Gregg is well-prepared and in one of the finest
books ever written on the subject, shows how faith and finance are
not incompatible" John E. Roper, US Review of Books
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