摘要：At the inception of the Jesuit order in the 16th century, they played an important role (along with the Dominicans) in the formation of the School of Salamanca. The economic philosophy undergirding this institution was far more radically free enterprise oriented than even Smith (1776). Yet, in the modern world, the Jesuits are not at all associated with economic freedom. Rather, if there is any philosophy informing their views it is liberation theology, an amalgamation of the non atheistic aspects of Marxism, combined with a more traditional Catholicism. The present paper is an attempt to trace this virtually 180 degree reversal of field and to understand it.
