Capitalism and Christianity: The Possibility of Christian PersonalismGeorgetown University Press, 23/09/1999 - 192 من الصفحات With socialism in eclipse and market economies gaining acceptance worldwide, a new kind of ethics is needed to address social injustice and inequity. Richard C. Bayer debunks the present direction of mainstream social ethical theory by advancing market systems themselves as a means toward promoting justice and meeting human needs. Observing that the primary vehicle for Christian ethics since the New Deal has been the welfare state, Bayer argues instead that market systems can provide a basis for reconciling capitalism and Christianity in both theory and practice. He proposes Christian personalism as an ethical approach that emphasizes the dignity of the human person and promotes the achievement of personal development through participation in a modified market economy. Bayer's work draws on Catholic social thought and orthodox economics, adopting a post-Keynesian approach that deemphasizes the role of the state in the achievement of economic justice. As an example of a personalist economic reform agenda, he describes a "share economy" that advances solidarity among workers, promises greater economic efficiency, and increases employee participation in profit-sharing and decision-making. Capitalism and Christianity integrates moral arguments with economic analysis to challenge prevailing thought in contemporary Christian social ethics. By incorporating key insights of liberalism while providing constructive criticism of that perspective, it creatively addresses both personal development and the common good. |
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... organization of the presentations at the conference demonstrated good ethical method : the first paper offered a description of the empirical problem and situation ; subsequent papers reviewed historical and more recent theological and ...
... organization promotes laissez - faire , free trade , the mobility of capital , and therefore necessarily leads to the erosion of human communities , the oppression of the poor , and the violation of the environment . Free trade and ...
... organization is to " concentrate wealth in the hands of the minority " and to " widen the gap between the rich and the poor . " Furthermore , the real - world failures of socialism are excused as un- fortunate situations of ...
... ( organized by industrial sector , not class ) like an organ- ism with many parts but , still , centrally directed by the state . One can understand how such a participatory system might be a solution to a ( perceived ) problem of ...
... organizations can do . ( Quadragesimo Anno , par . 79 ) It must be pointed out that there is no school of orthodox economic thought that interprets the Great Depression as Pius does here . There is no evidence that the depression had ...
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Three Ideas Wrong | 31 |
The Moral Imperative A Redistributionist State | 37 |
An Overview | 41 |
The Enabling State | 55 |
The Moral Objection | 65 |
Conclusion | 94 |
Toward a New Synthesis Christian Personalism and Democratic Capitalism | 101 |
Toward a Personalist Social Anthropology | 102 |
Personalist Method | 120 |
Personalist Interpretation of Social Justice | 124 |
Conclusion | 128 |
TOWARD A CHRISTIAN CAPITALISM | 133 |
Christian Personalism Toward Implementation | 135 |
Conclusion | 67 |
CAPITALISM WITHOUT INDIVIDUALISM | 73 |
Liberal Anthropology Free Equal and Rational | 75 |
John Rawls | 76 |
Michael Walzer | 84 |
Robert Nozick | 88 |
Corporate Responsibility | 138 |
The Share Economy | 141 |
Macroeconomic Implications | 154 |
Conclusion | 166 |
Index | 171 |