The final two principles of A Catholic Framework for Economic Life (www.usccb.org/jphd/economiclife) indicate how everyone in an economic system — from the workers to global leaders — is responsible for a just outcome:
- Principle 9. Workers, owners, managers, stockholders, and consumers are moral agents in economic life. By our choices, initiative, creativity and investment, we enhance or diminish economic opportunity, community life and social justice.
- Principle 10. The global economy has moral dimensions and human consequences. Decisions on investment, trade, aid, and development should protect human life and promote human rights, especially for those most in need wherever they might live on this globe.
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