Calculated futures : theology, ethics, and economics / D. Stephen Long, Nancy Ruth Fox ; with Tripp York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, D. Stephen, 1960-

Contributor:

Fox, Nancy Ruth.

York, Tripp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Economics.

Christianity and politics.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The logic of the market : an investigation of first principles

Prophets and profits : economics and theology in conflict?

The facts about values

What makes theology "political"? : come let us reason together

The theology of economics : Adam Smith as "church" father

The corporation and everyday economic life : a traditioned theological inquiry

Corporations and the ends we serve

Usury : avarice as a capital vice

A Catholic Church and global market : the tale of two corporations

Offering our gifts : the politics of remembrance.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index.

ISBN:

9786610969234

9781280969232

1280969237

9781602580817

1602580812

OCLC:

476074750