Was the Good Samaritan a Bad Economist?

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.

List of contents

Part One: 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 Two: 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: Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis
11 Integral Human Development
Part Three: Whither the Future
12 The Economy, the Family and Mediating Institutions
13 Distributism and the Catholic Worker Movement
14 Wisdom and the Christian Economist

About the author

By Charles K. Wilber

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.

Product details

• Authors: Charles K. Wilber, Wilber Charles K.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793637000
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-700-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies