Markets, Morals, and Religion
Title | Markets, Morals, and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan B. Imber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-10-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138527683 |
The examination of the relationship of economic activity to other important aspects of human life and social behavior has inspired some of the most interesting and provocative social-scientific research in the past one hundred years. This book of original essays by leading thinkers across many disciplines offers new insights into enduring questions about how modern and modernizing market economies are both shaped by and shapers of morality, values, and religion. Part 1, "Markets and Morals," offers eight contributors who provide analyses of the various ways in which the market operates in relation to morality. An empirical presentation of moral values and market attitudes is given. Other essays take aim at how markets serve and disserve moral interests: Economic growth has moral consequences; the manipulation of markets exposes a moral underside; the nature of market failure has implications for understanding moral vulnerability; preference change has moral implications. In other chapters, a broad consideration of the positive moral effects of market economies is offered along with historical essays on the role that intellectuals have played in debates about the positive and negative effects of commercial life and on the ways in which the American idea of the pursuit of happiness reveals much about the morality of economic life. In Part 2, "Markets and Religion," nine contributors address both the historical and contemporary emergence of religious factors in the growth and transformation of global capitalism. Major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are examined for their contributions to answering questions about the nature and function of economic life in light of religious ideas and ideals. Several essays present original approaches to the importance of religious values to modern forms of consumption and to the political economy of reconciliation and forgiveness in nations coming to terms with past conflict. Finally, the influence of non-Western ideas, in particular Chinese religions and Buddhism on economic thought and practice, is assessed as part of the globalizing impact of religion on economic life generally.
Markets, Morals, and Religion
Title | Markets, Morals, and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan B. Imber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1351506803 |
The examination of the relationship of economic activity to other important aspects of human life and social behavior has inspired some of the most interesting and provocative social-scientific research in the past one hundred years. This book of original essays by leading thinkers across many disciplines offers new insights into enduring questions about how modern and modernizing market economies are both shaped by and shapers of morality, values, and religion.Part 1, "Markets and Morals," offers eight contributors who provide analyses of the various ways in which the market operates in relation to morality. An empirical presentation of moral values and market attitudes is given. Other essays take aim at how markets serve and disserve moral interests: Economic growth has moral consequences; the manipulation of markets exposes a moral underside; the nature of market failure has implications for understanding moral vulnerability; preference change has moral implications. In other chapters, a broad consideration of the positive moral effects of market economies is offered along with historical essays on the role that intellectuals have played in debates about the positive and negative effects of commercial life and on the ways in which the American idea of the pursuit of happiness reveals much about the morality of economic life.In Part 2, "Markets and Religion," nine contributors address both the historical and contemporary emergence of religious factors in the growth and transformation of global capitalism. Major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are examined for their contributions to answering questions about the nature and function of economic life in light of religious ideas and ideals. Several essays present original approaches to the importance of religious values to modern forms of consumption and to the political economy of reconciliation and forgiveness in nations coming to terms with past conflict. Finally, t
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Title | Religion and the Morality of the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107186056 |
This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.
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.
Markets, Morals & Religion
Title | Markets, Morals & Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan B. Imber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781412806664 |
This book of original essays by leading thinkers across many disciplines offers new insights into enduring questions about how modern and modernizing market economies are both shaped by and shapers of morality, values and religion.
Morality of the Market
Title | Morality of the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Ewart Boulding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
"Proceedings of an International Symposium on Religion, Economics, and Social Thought, held August 9-11, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia"--Verso t.p. Includes bibliographies and index.
Religious Ethics in the Market Economy
Title | Religious Ethics in the Market Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Karl G. Jechoutek |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3319765205 |
This book aims to go beyond merely confrontational or complementary treatments of the relationship between market participation and business ethics. Reviewing the attitudes towards the market embedded in religious ethics and scholars, it explores the symbiotic relationship between the economy, ethics and morals. Moving the discussion beyond a static and traditional economy envisaged by scripture, it explores the impact of an evolving and globalised economy based on the value systems of moral philosophy and religious ethics. The Author aims to expand the conventional view of business ethics, encouraging readers to interpret markets and morality as intertwined concepts, and use them to inform further research.