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Contemporary economic theories, the Keynesian, Austrian or Neoclassic, are characterized by their conceptions of the economic agent. As can be easily shown, the philosophical foundations for these conceptions are contradictory with Social Catholic Teaching (CST). Fundamentally, this is the reason why those theories are unable to judge properly, and in its entirety, the economic judgments of CST. In this paper, we explore the possibility of an alternative economic theory based on an anthropological conception closer to philosophical Thomism. The work of Martin Rhonheimer or Cianfranco Basti can be considered a suitable updating of Thomistic thought that can be used for our purposes of building an alternative conception of the economic agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the praxeology of L. von Mises and the theory of action of Alfred Schütz. Because of the importance that Mises' theory has had on economics it is interesting to highlight the coincidences and synergies which exist between the two authors. In the first place, it is interesting because the praxis as a theory of the action is being more and more diffused in the social sciences and in the second place, because the importance which the work of A. Schütz and the direct pupils, especially Thomas Luckmann has ad on sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]