Market Complicity and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 31) - Softcover

Barrera, Albino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107649374 ISBN 13: 9781107649378

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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. 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.

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Book Description

The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our individual reach. Albino Barrera examines our own moral responsibilities for the distant harms of our market transactions, identifying how the market's division of labour makes us unwitting collaborators in others' wrongdoing and in collective ills.

About the Author

Albino Barrera is Professor of Economics and Theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. His previous publications include Globalisation and Economic Ethics (2007), Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), God and the Evil of Scarcity (2005) and Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (2001).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107649374
• ISBN 13: 9781107649378
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 326