Albino Barrera

Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Markets can often be harsh in compelling people to make unpalatable economic choices any reasonable person would not take under normal conditions. Thus, workers laid off in mid-career accept lower-paid jobs that are beneath their professional experience for want of better alternatives. Economic migrants leave their families and cross borders (legally or illegally) in search of a livelihood. These are examples of economic compulsion. These economic ripple effects have been virtually ignored in ethical discourse because they are generally accepted to be the very mechanisms that generate the market's much-touted allocative efficiency. Albino Barrera argues that Christian thought on economic security offers an effective framework within which to address the consequences of economic compulsion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511138195
• Artikelnr.: 38204193

Autorenporträt

Professor Albino Barrera teaches in both theology and economics at Providence College. His most recent book is Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy published in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's preface
Preface
Part I. The Nature and Dynamics of Economic Compulsion: 1. Markets and coercive pecuniary externalities
2. The regressive incidence of unintended burdens
Part II. Setting the Moral Baseline and Shaping Expectations: 3. Economic security as God's twofold gift
4. Retrieving the biblical principle of restoration
Part III. Contemporary Appropriation: 5. Economic rights-obligations as diagnostic framework
6. Application: the case of agricultural protectionism
7. Summary and conclusions
References
Index.