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Author : Albino Barrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521853419
Barrera addresses adverse effects of market operations on individuals from the viewpoint of Christian ethics.
Author : Albino Barrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139495516
The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our reach so shoppers in the West can now buy fresh-cut flowers, vegetables, and tropical fruits grown halfway across the globe even in the depths of winter. However, these expanded choices have also come with considerable moral responsibilities as our economic decisions can have far-reaching effects by either ennobling or debasing human lives. In this book, Albino Barrera examines our own moral responsibilities for the distant harms of our market transactions from a Christian viewpoint, identifying how the market's division of labour makes us unwitting collaborators in others' wrongdoing and in collective ills. His important account covers a range of different subjects, including law, economics, philosophy, and theology, in order to identify the injurious ripple effects of our market activities.
Author : Albino Barrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139446846
Markets can often be harsh in compelling people to make unpalatable economic choices any reasonable person would not take under normal conditions. Thus, workers laid off in mid-career accept lower-paid jobs that are beneath their professional experience for want of better alternatives. Economic migrants leave their families and cross borders (legally or illegally) in search of a livelihood. These are examples of economic compulsion. These economic ripple effects have been virtually ignored in ethical discourse because they are generally accepted to be the very mechanisms that generate the market's much-touted allocative efficiency. Albino Barrera argues that Christian thought on economic security offers an effective framework within which to address the consequences of economic compulsion.
Author : Albino Barrera
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739182307
Written in non-technical language accessible to non-specialist readers, this book is a theological synthesis of the findings of scripture scholars and ethicists on what the Bible teaches about economic life. It proposes a biblical theology of economic life that addresses three questions, namely: What do the individual books of Sacred Scripture say about proper economic conduct? How do these teachings fit within the larger theology and ethics of the books in which they are found? Are there recurring themes, underlying patterns, or issues running across these different sections of the Bible when read together as a single canon? The economic norms of the Old and New Testament exhibit both continuity and change. Despite their diverse social settings and theological visions, the books of the Bible nonetheless share recurring themes: care for the poor, generosity, wariness over the idolatry of wealth, the inseparability of genuine worship and upright moral conduct, and the acknowledgment of an underlying divine order in economic life. Contrary to most people’s first impression that the Bible offers merely random economic teachings without rhyme or reason, there is, in fact, a specific vision undergirding these scriptural norms. Moreover, far from being burdensome impositions of do’s and don’ts, this book finds that the Bible’s economic norms are, in fact, an invitation to participate in God’s providence. To this end, we have been granted a threefold benefaction—the gift of divine friendship, the gift of one another, and the gift of the earth. Thus, biblical economic ethics is best characterized as a chronicle of how God provides for humanity through people’s mutual solicitude and hard work. The economic ordinances, aphorisms, and admonitions of the Old and New Testament turn out to be an unmerited divine invitation to participate in God’s governance of the world. Our economic conduct provides us with a unique opportunity to shine forth in our creation in the image and likeness of God. Often extremely demanding, hard, and even fraught with temptations and distractions, economic life nevertheless is, at its core, an occasion for humans to grow in holiness, charity, and perfection.
Author : Prentiss L. Pemberton,Daniel Rush Finn
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037735896
Author : Max L. Stackhouse,Dennis P. McCann,Preston N. Williams,Shirley J. Roels
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802806260
An invaluable resources for the study of the relation of business, economics, ethics, and religion.
Author : Daniel K. Finn
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451452280
What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.
Author : Jeremy Kidwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137536518
This volume brings together a prominent group of Christian economists and theologians to provide an interdisciplinary look at how we might use the tools of economic and theological reasoning to cultivate more just and moral economies for the 21st century.
Author : Daniel Finn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199371013
Does a consumer who bought a shirt made in another nation bear any moral responsibility when the women who sewed that shirt die in a factory fire or in the collapse of the building? Many have asserted, without explanation, that because markets cause harms to distant others, consumers bear moral responsibility for those harms. But traditional moral analysis of individual decisions is unable to sustain this argument. Distant Harms, Distant Markets presents a careful analysis of moral complicity in markets, employing resources from sociology, Christian history, feminism, legal theory, and Catholic moral theology today. Because of its individualistic methods, mainstream economics as a discipline is not equipped to understand the causality entailed in the long chains of social relationships that make up the market. Critical realist sociology, however, has addressed the character and functioning of social structures, an analysis that can helpfully be applied to the market. The True Wealth of Nations research project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an international group of sociologists, economists, moral theologians, and others to describe these causal relationships and articulate how Catholic social thought can use these insights to more fully address issues of economic ethics in the twenty-first century. The result was this interdisciplinary volume of essays, which explores the causal and moral responsibilities that consumers bear for the harms that markets cause to distant others.
Author : James M. Childs
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451410522
"In this book, Childs probes this disturbing development in its economic and cultural dimensions, gauging contemporary ways in light of Christian ethical principles. Investigating such issues as corporate downsizing, executive compensation, health-care delivery, and global economic disparities mirrored in hunger, Childs also offers a biblically-based alternative vision of sharing and community."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Douglas A. Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521772532
Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Inequality and Christian Ethics addresses this question at an international level and goes on to consider why such a phenomenon, to the extent that it is true, is morally troubling. In order to provide an ethical perspective on a social and economic problem such as inequality, the book draws on Christian ethics, philosophy, and economics. It considers the relation of inequality to various aspects of life--such as income, health, and education--as well as to questions of race, gender, and nationality.
Author : Robin Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107176829
Using a range of disciplines, this book explores the relationship between moral passion and rational ethical deliberation.
Author : John E. Stapleford
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830874620
Self-interest, economic efficiency and private property rights are among the most basic assumptions of market economics. But can an economic theory built on these assumptions alone provide adequate insight into human nature, motivation and ultimate goals to guide our economic life? John Stapleford says no along with those economists who recognize the limits of their discipline. He insightfully shows us in detail how ethics are inextricably intertwined with economic life and analysis. Writing from a Christian ethical perspective, he interacts with seven standard introductory economics texts, exploring the moral challenges imbedded in various macro-, micro- and international economic theories and outlining a faithful response to them. Among the important ethical issues addressed are possibilities and perils of economic growth the role of government in the economy the growth of work and loss of leisure lending and borrowing poverty and distributive justice environmental stewardship business and social responsibility legalized gambling the pornography industry debt relief for less developed countries the economics of immigration population control Keyed to seven of the most widely used introductory economics texts--Gwartney, Stroup & Sobel; Mankiw; Mansfield & Behravesh; McConnell & Brue; Miller; Samuelson & Nordhaus; and Stiglitz--this book will be especially useful for introductory courses in economics.
Author : Travis Kroeker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773565197
Kroeker argues that in trying to make their theological ethics relevant to economic policy Christian social ethicists have accepted assumptions that are incompatible with theological beliefs. Starting with the Social Gospel movement, he discusses the positions of theologian Walter Rauschenbusch and Canadian politician James Shaver Woodsworth. He then turns to Christian Realism and compares the views of Reinhold Niebuhr with those of Gregory Vlastos, the central figure in the Canadian Fellowship for a Christian Social Order. He also examines recent pastoral letters on the economy by the Canadian and US conferences of Roman Catholic bishops. In conclusion, Kroeker suggests an alternative theological approach based on the classical Christian realism of Augustine that might better address the moral malaise of liberal political economy.
Author : Timothy Gorringe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015995215
"Timothy Gorringe's experiences in grassroots organizations for social change in India and as scholar and chaplain at Oxford University infuse this eloquent exploration of social, biblical, and philosophical considerations of the nature and purpose of ethical discourse. Starting from the premise that ethics is a conversation whereby humanity chooses its common path, Capital and the Kingdom forcefully addresses the question of what constitutes an ethic "for life" in the post-Cold War era." "Gorringe uses as a thematic framework the Deuteronomic admonition, "therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live," (Deut. 30:19). Capital and the Kingdom demonstrates that the ethic which "chooses life" encompasses a great deal more than any single issue the phrase may suggest. In Part I, Gorringe explores the biblical basis for this ethic as well as a range of questions it raises for the individual, for society, even for non-human creation. At the heart of this exploration is this question: can there be ethical consensus or a universal ground for ethics in an age of moral relativism?" "Part II of Capital and the Kingdom turns to particular structures on which an ethic of life may be brought to bear. These structures include the concept and organization of work, leisure and human fulfillment; the theory and practice of economics; the definition and expression of human equality. Part III builds on the foundations laid in the first two parts, addressing contemporary issues of particular concern to those concerned with an ethic of life: the persistence and pervasiveness of poverty, the moral void of contemporary management theory and practice, the inequality that necessitates resistance and solidarity, the idea of wages and equal pay, the concept of private versus community property, and finally, the destitution and fate of the earth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved