He has an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory.He is the author of many books, including Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded (2001), On Ordered Liberty (2003), his prize-winning The Commercial Society (2007), The Modern Papacy (2009), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010) and Becoming Europe (2013). Some of them have been translated into different languages.