Faith in the Market
Title | Faith in the Market PDF eBook |
Author | John Michael Giggie |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780813530994 |
Reveals the many ways in which religious groups actually embraced commercial culture to establish an urban presence. [back cover].
The Market as God
Title | The Market as God PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Cox |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0674973151 |
“Essential and thoroughly engaging...Harvey Cox’s ingenious sense of how market theology has developed a scripture, a liturgy, and sophisticated apologetics allow us to see old challenges in a remarkably fresh light.” —E. J. Dionne, Jr. We have fallen in thrall to the theology of supply and demand. According to its acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It can raise nations and ruin households, and comes complete with its own doctrines, prophets, and evangelical zeal. Harvey Cox brings this theology out of the shadows, demonstrating that the way the world economy operates is shaped by a global system of values that can be best understood as a religion. Drawing on biblical sources and the work of social scientists, Cox points to many parallels between the development of Christianity and the Market economy. It is only by understanding how the Market reached its “divine” status that can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity. “Cox argues that...we are now imprisoned by the dictates of a false god that we ourselves have created. We need to break free and reclaim our humanity.” —Forbes “Cox clears the space for a new generation of Christians to begin to develop a more public and egalitarian politics.” —The Nation
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
Title | Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Vincanne Adams |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2013-03-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822354497 |
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering that they failed to ameliorate, producing a second-order disaster that exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own. Filled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned to New Orleans, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith describes the human toll of disaster capitalism and the affect economy it has produced. While for-profit companies delayed delivery of federal resources to returning residents, faith-based and nonprofit groups stepped in to rebuild, compelled by the moral pull of charity and the emotional rewards of volunteer labor. Adams traces the success of charity efforts, even while noting an irony of neoliberalism, which encourages the very same for-profit companies to exploit these charities as another market opportunity. In so doing, the companies profit not once but twice on disaster.
Faith-based Marketing
Title | Faith-based Marketing PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Stielstra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Marketing |
ISBN | 9781119198550 |
Is the Market Moral?
Title | Is the Market Moral? PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca M. Blank |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2003-12-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0815796285 |
In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions—equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism. Their arguments are grounded in both economic sophistication and religious commitment. Rebecca Blank is an economist by training and describes herself as "culturally Protestant in the habits of mind and heart." She has also chaired the committee that wrote the statement on Christian faith and economic life adopted by the United Church of Christ. Addressing market failure, for her, requires that sometimes "freedom to choose" give way to other human values. William McGurn, a journalist and a Roman Catholic, uses his expertise in economics to reflect on the teachings of the church concerning the morality of the market. For McGurn, humans reach their fullest potential when they are free from the constraints of others. He writes that "our quarrel is not so much with Adam Smith or Milton Friedman but with the Providence that so clearly designed man to be his most prosperous at his most free." This book grapples with the new imperatives of a global economy while working in the classic tradition of political economy which always treated seriously the questions of morality, justice, productivity, and freedom.
Faith-Based Marketing
Title | Faith-Based Marketing PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Hutchins |
Publisher | John Wiley and Sons |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2009-04-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0470483067 |
Most businesses don’t have a good understanding of the faith community and how to market to this huge audience in effective, culturally sensitive ways. Many attempts to market to Christians have backfired, because the marketers had little understanding of Christians’ values, taboos, and "hot buttons". Yet the size of the opportunity is enormous. Faith-Based Marketing provides everything business leaders need to understand 140 million Christian consumers and effectively reach them. It explains who Christians are, what they want, and provides traditional, new media, and word-of-mouth strategies to communicate with and engage them and their churches. The book also includes a valuable directory of top Christian organizations, churches, and events, to help marketers and business leaders find out whom to contact and how. The book includes a free subscription to a companion website with bonus content.
Christianity and Market Regulation
Title | Christianity and Market Regulation PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel A. Crane |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-07-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108853633 |
Historically, the Christian tradition has played an influential role in Western economic thought concerning the regulation of markets, but, with the fracturing of the Christian tradition following the Reformation, the decline of Christian influence in academia, and the increasing specialization of economic analysis, that influence has become increasingly opaque. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of prominent academic experts on market regulation from four different continents and various faith traditions to reconsider the impact of Christianity on market regulation. Drawing on law, economics, history, theology, philosophy, and political theory, the authors consider both general questions of market regulation and particular regulatory fields such as bankruptcy, corporate law, and antitrust from a Christian perspective.