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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... greater recognition of the importance of reform in the economic sector ; and especially the divergences in moral theory developed in chapter 4 . Recent years have seen a host of questions raised about xiv Introduction.
... sectors are mutually conditioning and that also the eco- nomic sector must contribute to a political economy conceived along Personalist lines . I Defending Capitalism Against Its Despisers 1 Democratic Capitalism and xvi + Introduction.
... sector . My reading of his comments is that those who have the audacity to investigate along Novak's lines of thought would also be suspect ; i.e. , they are likely scholars with no sense and stone hearts . Such scholars would risk the ...
... 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 economic dictatorship and ...
... sectors of the economy ( most prominently mentioned are agriculture and industry ) ; and a balanced notion of development to include spiritual as well as mate- rial progress . This " fine tuning " was for the most part to be accom ...
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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 |