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Promoting the Common Good: Bringing Economics and Theology Together Again
Marcus Braybrooke
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Description for Promoting the Common Good: Bringing Economics and Theology Together Again
paperback. Braybrooke and Mofid call for the evolution of a global ethic that respects cultural diversity, the environment and economic reality. In a clear, engaging style the authors show how economic issues can be understood by us all - it is important we do, so that we can help build a world that is just, free and prosperous. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs - any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals, governments and international institutions like the World Bank and the IMF. It is a matter of hard choices. Relief of poverty is charitable, a noble ideal, but has nothing to do with economics. In the year in which the campaign to Make Poverty History ... Read more
Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs - any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals, governments and international institutions like the World Bank and the IMF. It is a matter of hard choices. Relief of poverty is charitable, a noble ideal, but has nothing to do with economics. In the year in which the campaign to Make Poverty History ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Shepheard-Walwyn United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856832314
SKU
V9780856832314
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99-13
About Marcus Braybrooke
Rev Marcus Braybrooke is an Anglican Priest, Peace Councillor, President of the World Congress of Faiths, Patron of the International Interfaith Centre (Oxford), Co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum (London), and author of numerous interfaith books. Dr Kamran Mofid taught economics at universities for 20 years. Recently, he has developed short courses, seminars, and workshops on economics and theology, ... Read more
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