This volume is the first of its kind, bringing together adherents of two major schools of thought that have sometimes been in bitter opposition to one another to address critical issues of our time. The dialogue that ensues is often pointed and sometimes contentious, but it offers insights and holds out the prospect of collaborative moral, economic, scholarly and policy collaboration in ways that could yield solutions to some of the key challenges of contemporary society.

• Brings together prominent figures from the schools of Catholic social thought, and the ideas propounded by the great 19th-century social and economic thinker, Henry George
• Issues discussed include: natural law, human nature, nature of work, the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, causes of war, immigration, development and wealth, and neighbourhood revitalization
• Demonstrates the benefits of moral, economic, scholarly, and policy collaboration, and how it could yield solutions to some of the key challenges of contemporary society
• Offers a timely reminder that recent years have brought the reality of human suffering to light in vivid ways, and that issues of social justice have assumed greater urgency in public discourse

Dr. Kenneth Lord serves as Associate Dean in the Kania School of Management and Professor of Management and Marketing at The University of Scranton. He came to The University of Scranton in 2006 from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was director of graduate programs and professor of marketing. Earlier in his career he held marketing faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Niagara University. Dr. Lord holds degrees in English, communication and marketing from the University of Utah and The Ohio State University. His research in the area of consumer behavior has led to more than 80 articles and presentations in scholarly and trade journals and conferences, more than 1,000 citations in scholarly publications and textbooks, and his ranking among the world's top advertising scholars.