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Informationen zum Autor Dr Catherine Cowley ra teaches Christian Ethics at Heythrop College, University of London, and is Associate Director of the Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. She is a member of the Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption. Klappentext It is commonly observed that economic factors are pivotal in driving globalisation forward. A globalised economy is far more advanced than a globalised politics. However, if we are to fully understand what is happening, that assumption needs to be refined. This book argues that economic factors are themselves driven: they are the working out of underlying phenomena. Of these, the most pervasive and influential is money. This is not only money in the sense of the finance sector; it is also money in and of itself, the symbolic properties which money possesses. Crucially, this book takes both disciplines seriously, as equal conversation partners, and does not seek to use one approach to define the other as automatically inadequate. Zusammenfassung Offers an ethical examination of global finance which is both theologically and economically literate. This book also examines the effect of money on our understanding of freedom, of the market itself and of the ethical, issues arising from this, for individuals, the sector and for society as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two Ethical Claims of the Market Chapter Three Ethical Insufficiency of the Model Chapter Four The Human Person Chapter Five The Common Good Chapter Six A Philosophy of Money Chapter Seven The Financial Sector: An Initial Overview Chapter Eight The Derivatives Market Chapter Nine Risk, Volatility and Genoa Tendencies Chapter Ten Regulation and the Problem of Integrity Chapter Eleven The Individual, the Sector and the Common Good Glossary Bibliography ...
