Calculated Futures : Theology, Ethics, and Economics.
Title:
Calculated Futures : Theology, Ethics, and Economics.
Author:
Long, D. Stephen.
ISBN:
9781602580817
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part I The Logic of the Market: An Investigation of First Principles -- 1 Prophets and Profits -- 2 The Facts about Values -- 3 What Makes Theology "Political"? -- 4 The Theology of Economics -- Part II The Corporation and Everyday Economic Life: A Traditioned Theological Inquiry -- 5 Corporations and the Ends We Serve -- 6 Usury -- 7 A Catholic Church and Global Market -- 8 Offering Our Gifts -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Calculated Futures examines the ethical and theological underpinnings of the free-market economy, investigating not only the morality of corporations and exchange rates, but also how the politics of economics shape people as moral agents. It does this less by insisting on the unfavorable effects of capitalism, and more by drawing on theological virtues, Christian doctrines, and liturgical practices to discover what they might show us about economic exchanges. Calculated Futures seeks a way forward by engaging economics as a social scientific discipline without subordinating theology to it.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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