Aquinas and the market : toward a humane economy /

Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hirschfeld, Mary L. (Mary Lee) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Thomism.
Happiness > Religious aspects.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Thomisme.
Bonheur > Aspect religieux.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • To serve God or Mammon?: the dialogue between theology and economics
  • The rational choice model and its limitations
  • Happiness and the distinctively human exercise of practical reason: the metaphysical backdrop
  • Happiness and the distinctively human exercise of practical reason: virtue and prudence
  • Economic life as ordered to happiness
  • From liberality to justice: Aquinas's teachings on private property
  • Toward a humane economy: a pragmatic approach.

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