Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy
How Buying Here Causes Injustice There
$96.04
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2019
Summary
It is a serious mistake to think that all we need for a just world is properly-structured organizations. But it is equally wrong to believe that all we need are virtuous people. Social structures alter people’s decisions through the influence of the restrictions and opportunities they present.
Does buying a shirt at the local department store create for you some responsibility for the workplace welfare of the women who sewed it half a planet away? Many people interested in justice ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781626166967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 162616696X |
| Author: | Daniel K. Finn |
| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Imprint: | Georgetown University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Moral Traditions series |
Critics Review
Finn succeeds in advancing a compelling theory of consumer moral agency and pushes the discipline of Christian ethics forward with constructive engagements with proponents of critical realism.
* Studies in Christian Ethics *Daniel K. Finn
Daniel K. Finn is an economist and theologian, teaching at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), and the Association for Social Economics. He has published extensively on the relation of ethics and economics. He is director of the True Wealth of Nations research project at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies in Los Angeles.
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