Aquinas and the Market - Toward a Humane Economy Hirschfeld Mary L.Pevná vazba
Aquinas and the Market - Toward a Humane Economy Hirschfeld Mary L.Pevná vazba Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns…
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Aquinas and the Market - Toward a Humane Economy Hirschfeld Mary L.Pevná vazba
Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside.
Thomas Aquinas.According to Hirschfeld, an economics rooted in Thomistic thought integrates many of the insights of economists with a larger view of the good life, and gives us critical purchase on the ethical shortcomings of modern capitalism. Hirschfeld, who was a professor of economics for fifteen years before training as a theologian, seeks to bridge these two fields in this innovative work about economics and the thought of St. In a Thomistic approach, she writes, ethics and economics cannot be reconciled if we begin with narrow