Throughout the years, many authors have distilled different economic, political, legal, and moral aspects of Father Jaime Balmes’s thought. But we would do little justice to Balmes’s thinking if we were not to stress also his ideas’ continued relevance in our own day. Let us therefore open the time capsule and see what treasured lessons and advice Balmes has for our politicians—particularly those in the making.
Ignacio Ibáñez, "Jaime Balmes: Seven Lessons and Three Pieces of Advice for Today’s Politicians," Journal of Markets & Morality 23, no. 1 (2020): 209-213.