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In this pathbreaking volume, six social scientists explain what their disciplines know about the common good and two theologians ask how theology's understanding of the common good should change in response.
List of contents
- Contributors
- Forward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Contributions of Contemporary Political Science
- to an Understanding of the Common Good
- Matthew Carnes, S.J.
- Chapter 2 What Can Economists Contribute to the Common Good Tradition?
- Andrew M. Yuengert
- Chapter 3 Public Policy and the Common Good
- Mary Jo Bane
- Chapter 4 The Contribution of Sociology to Catholic Social Thought and
- The Common Good
- Douglas V. Porpora
- Chapter 5 Contributions of Economic Theory to an Understanding of the
- Common Good in Catholic Social Thought
- Charles K. Wilber
- Chapter 6 Public Service, Public Goods, and the Common Good
- Argentina as a Case Study
- Gerardo Sanchis Muñoz
- Chapter 7 What Can Social Science Teach Catholic Social Thought
- About the Common Good?
- David Cloutier
- Chapter 8 What Theology Should and Should Not Learn
- from the Social Sciences about the Common Good
- Mary L. Hirschfeld
About the author
Daniel K. Finn is Professor of Theology and Clemens Professor of Economics at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is a former president of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Association for Social Economics. His books include Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications.
Summary
In this pathbreaking volume, six social scientists explain what their disciplines know about the common good and two theologians ask how theology's understanding of the common good should change in response.
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This volume is suitable for graduate students or scholars interested in the common good and in CST. The contributors present important terms and movements from within their disciplines in an accessible way. Some of the insights by the social scientists are helpful even to experienced theologians who often engage in interdisciplinary collaboration.
