Spirituality & Religion – Ethical Economics Books and Research

Promoting the Common Good

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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…

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Visitors

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:37 +0000

Chosen for July 2009 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction More an allegory than a novel, Visitors describes the impact of beings from a distant planet on the political, economic and spiritual life of Britain and the world A year into office and the Prime Minister’s only bonus was frustration. The swelling demands of welfare and security were like juggernauts, demolishing his reforms and…

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Imputed Rights

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:36 +0000

One outcome of the Second World War, Professor Dawsey writes in his foreword to this edition, was the proposition that all human beings should enjoy certain fundamental freedoms. These were enshrined by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since the book was first published in 1971 this endorsement has led to greater recognition of human rights…

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Christianity and Social Order

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:35 +0000

35th in the Church Times 100 Best Christian Books selection This book poses challenging and essential questions on the relationship between Christianity and the nature of a moral society. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 until his death in 1944, pointed out that it is the role of the Church to provide the teaching and enunciation of principle upon which the foundation of a…

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