Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations List -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SOCIAL ETHICS AND DEMOCRACY -- 1 Planning and the Religious Mind -- "Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt" -- 2 On Culture, Religion, and Development -- 3 On Human Dignity and Human Rights: Western or Universal -- 4 To Build a Just Society: The Catholic Left in Quebec -- 5 Religion, Emancipation, and Human Rights -- POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY -- 6 West Indian from East Europe. Kari Polanyi Levitt -- 7 Kari Polanyi Levitt and the Theory of Plantation Economy in Contemporary Perspective -- 8 The New Canadian Political Economy: Classic and Beyond -- 9 Kari Polanyi Levitt and Critical Thought in the Caribbean: A Sketch -- 10 Reconciling the Transition to Socialism -- 11 Confluences -- Epilogue -- Selected Publications.