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Was the good Samaritan a bad Economist? Charles K. Wilber.

By: Wilber, Charles KMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD Lexington Books, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)ISBN: 1793637016; 9781793637017Subject(s): United States | Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church | Poor -- United States -- Social conditions | Social mobility -- Economic aspects -- United States | Church and social problems -- Catholic Church | Pauvreté -- Aspect religieux -- Église catholique | Mobilité sociale -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis | Église et problèmes sociaux -- Église catholique | Church and social problems -- Catholic Church | Poor -- Social conditions | Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Catholic ChurchGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 261.8325 LOC classification: BV639.P6 | W55 2021Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Foundations -- 1. The Good Samaritan and Catholic Social Thought -- 2. Economic Theory Requires Moral Values -- 3. Individual Actors Have Moral Values -- 4. Markets Require Intervention -- 5. Moral Theories and Justice -- 6. Catholic Social Thought and the Common Good -- Part II: Applications -- 7. Economics of Labor Markets and Theory of the Gift -- 8. The Causes of Poverty -- 9. Pope Francis and Inequality -- 10. The Economy as a Casino -- 11. Integral Human Development -- Part III: Whither the Future
12 The Economy, the Family, and Mediating Institutions -- 13. Distributism and the Catholic Worker Movement -- 14. Wisdom and the Christian Economist -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Foundations -- 1. The Good Samaritan and Catholic Social Thought -- 2. Economic Theory Requires Moral Values -- 3. Individual Actors Have Moral Values -- 4. Markets Require Intervention -- 5. Moral Theories and Justice -- 6. Catholic Social Thought and the Common Good -- Part II: Applications -- 7. Economics of Labor Markets and Theory of the Gift -- 8. The Causes of Poverty -- 9. Pope Francis and Inequality -- 10. The Economy as a Casino -- 11. Integral Human Development -- Part III: Whither the Future

12 The Economy, the Family, and Mediating Institutions -- 13. Distributism and the Catholic Worker Movement -- 14. Wisdom and the Christian Economist -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.

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