Michael Novak died February 17, at the age of 83, after a battle with cancer. It's hard to imagine the Catholic Church—or the world—without him.
Novak is perhaps best known for his comprehensive examinations of the practical realities and ideals of “democratic capitalism,” first advanced in his 1982 masterpiece The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and developed in a series of subsequent books, including The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1993), Business as a Calling (1996), and, most recently, Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is (2015), co-authored with Paul Adams.
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