Markets, Morals & Religion

ISBN-13: 9781412806664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 254 str.

Jonathan Imber; Peter L. Berger

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1: Markets and Morals; 1: Three Hundred Years of Positive Moral Effects of the Market; 2: The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth; 3: Moral Values and Market Attitudes; 4: State-Manipulated Markets and Morals: Degussa in the Third Reich; 5: The Moral Implications of Preference Change; 6: Market Failure for the Treatment of Animals; 7: Western Intellectuals and Commercial Society; 8: The Market and the Pursuit of Happiness; 2: Markets and Religion; 9: Welfare, Property and the Divine Image in Jewish Law and Thought; 10: Capitalism in Religious Zionist Theory; 11: Ambivalent Embrace: Islamic Economics and Global Capitalism; 12: Pentecostalism and Economic Development; 13: Counting One's Blessings: The Economic Values of Russian Orthodox Christians; 14: The Consumer Market and the Origins of the African American Holiness Movement; 15: The Political Economy of Forgiveness; 16: Mitch Kapor and the Roots of an Enlightened Economics; 17: Within and Beyond the Market: Religious, Moralities, and Philanthropies in Chinese Societies

O autorze

Jonathan B. Imber