The Logic of Gift: Rethinking Business As a Community of Persons (Pere Marquette Theology Lecture)

In The Logic of Gift: Business as a Community of Persons, Michael Naughton rethinks the purpose and practices of business in light of Benedict XVI s suggestion that real wealth consists most fundamentally in the quality of one s relationships.

The Logic of Gift is the 2012 Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology delivered by Michael Naughton on March 4, 2012. Professor Naughtons lecture is the forty-third in this esteemed series. Begun in 1969 under the auspices of the Marquette University Department of Theology, the series commemorates the missions and explorations of Pere Jacques Marquette, SJ (1637-75). Past Pere Marquette Lecturers include Bernard Lonergan, S.J., Avery Dulles, S.J., Walter Kasper, and Stanley L. Jaki.