| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Michael Novak's Contributions to Political and Economic Thought | |
| 1 | A Closet Capitalist Confesses | 3 |
| 2 | The Closet Socialists | 6 |
| 3 | An Underpraised and Undervalued System | 13 |
| 4 | On the Governability of Democracies: The Economic System: The Evangelical Basis of a Social Market Economy | 20 |
| 5 | The Vision of Democratic Capitalism | 41 |
| 6 | The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism: Conference on the Role of Business and Industry in American Life, held April 21-22, 1983, in Charleston, W.V. | 51 |
| 7 | Mediating Institutions: The Communitarian Individual in America | 67 |
| 8 | Free Persons and the Common Good | 82 |
| 9 | The Future of Civil Society | 97 |
| 10 | The Judeo-Christian Foundation of Human Dignity, Personal Liberty and the Concept of the Person | 105 |
| 11 | Hayek: Practitioner of Social Justice, "Social Justice Properly Understood": Celebration of Friedrich Hayek's 100th Birthday, October 28, 1999 | 119 |
| 12 | Theologians and Economists: The Next Twenty Years | 145 |
| 13 | Economic Rights: The Servile State | 156 |
| 14 | Political Economy and Christian Conscience | 169 |
| 15 | Political Economy in Our Time | 177 |
| 16 | The Great Convergence: A New Consensus in Favor of Economic and Religious Liberty | 184 |
| 17 | How Christianity Changed Political Economy | 194 |
| 18 | Economics As Humanism | 202 |
| 19 | A Challenge to Business | 209 |
| 20 | Business, Faith, and the Family | 213 |
| 21 | Two Moral Ideals for Business | 219 |
| 22 | Seven Plus Seven: The Responsibilities of Business Corporations | 233 |
| 23 | Is Business a Calling? | 242 |
| 24 | Executives Must Be Allowed to Execute | 249 |
| 25 | The Age of Enterprise: How Small Business Became the World's Biggest Business | 257 |
| 26 | The International Vocation of American Business: The Hansen-Wessner Memorial Lecture, November 12, 1998, at the University of Notre Dame | 263 |
| 27 | The Silent Artillery of Communism | 281 |
| 28 | Solidarity in a Time of Globalization: The Best of Times for Catholic Social Thought: Unpublished manuscript | 297 |
| 29 | Controversial Engagements | 313 |
| App | A Reader's Guide to Michael Novak's Works on Democratic Capitalism | 329 |
| Index | 335 |
| About the Author and Editor | 345 |