Rediscovering Abundance : Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income, And Their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition

Alford, Helen J. (EDT); Clark, Charles (EDT); Cortright, S. A. (EDT); Naughton, Michael J. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0268020272 / ISBN 13: 9780268020279

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rediscovering Abundance : Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income, And Their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268020272
• ISBN 13: 9780268020279
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

The essays in Rediscovering Abundance provide a complex and interdisciplinary analysis of the question of wealth creation and distribution in light of the moral and spiritual insights of the Catholic social tradition. In this volume, theologians, economists, philosophers, management theorists, and CEOs engage in conversation. Contributors cover the dimensions of today's global system of wealth creation and outline challenges to make it more just and humane.

This book questions both neoliberal and neoconservative views of the creation, distribution, and use of wealth. The volume seeks a middle ground, avoiding both conservative bias toward market mechanisms and liberal bias against business. It also provides practical suggestions for distributing wealth more justly, as understood within the Catholic social tradition. Rediscovering Abundance is an important new work that will be useful in business ethics courses, as well as to ethicists, pastors, practitioners in the business community, and anyone interested in the question of how a capitalist economy can create and distribute wealth in a way that benefits the common good.

About the Authors

Helen J. Alford, O.P., is dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and co-director of the Ethical Leadership International Program at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy.

Charles Clark is professor of economics, Tobin College of Business, and Senior Fellow, Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s University, New York.