RT Book
T1 Economic compulsion and Christian ethics
T2 New studies in Christian ethics
A1 Barrera, Albino 1956-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883361981
AB 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.
AB Markets and coercive pecuniary externalities -- The regressive incidence of unintended burdens -- Economic security as God's twofold gift -- Retrieving the biblical principle of restoration -- Economic rights-obligations as diagnostic framework -- Application : the case of agricultural protectionism -- Summary and conclusions
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX1795.E27
SN 9780511488313
K1 Christian Ethics : Catholic authors
K1 Christian Sociology : Catholic Church
K1 Economics : Religious aspects : Catholic Church
K1 Economics ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church
K1 Christian sociology ; Catholic Church
K1 Christian ethics ; Catholic authors
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511488313