Free-market thinking seems to have got its start not with Adam Smith and his fellow Scots but with Dominicans and Jesuits at the U. of Salamanca in the 15^th century.

Just price? The market decides that, etc. Such stuff does the social justice mantra in, or defines it in ways the world doth not dream of in these post-Marxist days . . .

Jesus Huerta de Soto has good material at Mises.com:

We stand for free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the oppression of collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities.

“So does this have anything to do with the Jesuit Luis de Molina?” asked Penny Ziemer Ford in reply to my Facebook posting.

Yes indeed.  Consider this from the Acton Institute

Tom Cross, running hard for treasurer, sends on a link to the Northwest Herald, all about the pension bill just passed, where we read:

If the pension reform bill passed Tuesday by the Illinois General Assembly was a first step in a series of reform measures still to come, wed hail it as a small victory for taxpayers and the state.

Unfortunately, we fear that in the minds of Gov. Pat Quinn, Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, this weeks reform effort is the only step, which it cannot be if Illinois is to right its fiscal ship….

I catch the drift and like it, but haven’t time to register as a signed and sealed reader, which you can do for more of this. Sorry.

$250,000 more from big-time conservative business man.

The other three scramble.

Wow.