Overview
- Unique collection presenting views of economists, theologians, philosophers and lawyers on market regulation and ethics
- Deals with the interrelation between market, ethics and religion discussed by scientists from all relevant disciplines
- A fascinating read for all those interested in the tensions between the upsides and downsides of the market mechanism
Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP, volume 62)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Religion and the Market
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Front Matter
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The Limitation of the Market: Some Cases
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism. Few concepts are as controversial as religion and the market mechanism. Some consider religion to be in conflict with a modern rational scientific view of life, and thus as a contributory cause of harsh conflicts and a barrier to human happiness. Others consider religious beliefs as the foundation for ethics and decent behaviour. Similar, a number of neoliberal writers acclaimed the market mechanism as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind, and saw it as the main reason why rich countries became rich. Others are extremely skeptical and stress how this mechanism has result in big multinational firms with powerfully rich owners and masses of poor low-paid workers. Researchers from various fields - economists, social scientists, theologians and philosophers - handle these questions very differently, applying different methods and differentideals. This book offers a synthesis of the different viewpoints. It deals with economists’, theologians’ and philosophers’ differing thoughts about the market and its limitations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Market, Ethics and Religion
Book Subtitle: The Market and its Limitations
Editors: Niels Kærgård
Series Title: Ethical Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08462-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08461-4Published: 19 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08464-5Published: 19 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08462-1Published: 18 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2211-2707
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Philosophy of Religion, Human Rights, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy