Article April 3, 1989 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

Russell Kirk with contributions from Joseph Baldacchino

Economics and the Moral Order

From an introduction by Russell Kirk to Economics and the Moral Order by Joseph Baldacchino

"A free and prosperous economy is the byproduct, so to speak, of a society influenced by sound moral principles and accustomed to good moral habits. Some people would like to separate economics from morals; but they are unable to do so. For unless most men and women recognize some sort of moral order, an economy cannot function except in a ... precarious way .... Production, trading, saving, and the whole economic apparatus depend upon general morality."

Reprinted by permission. (Washington, D.C.: National Humanities Institute, 1985.)

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