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Studies in Ethics and Economics
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Contact Information:
All inquiries should be sent to:
Dr. Samuel Gregg,
Series Editor
Studies in Ethics and Economics
161 Ottawa NW, Ste. 301
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
phone: (616) 454-3080
fax: (616) 454-9454
e-mail: sgregg@acton.org
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Economics as a discipline cannot be detached from a historical
background that was, it is increasingly recognized, religious in
nature. Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith drew on the work of sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century Spanish theologians, who strove to understand
the process of exchange and trade in order to better address the
moral dilemmas they saw arising from the spread of commerce in the
New World. After a long period in which economics became detached
from theology and ethics, many economists and theologians now see
the benefit of studying economic realities in their full cultural,
often religious, context. This new series provides an international
forum for exploring the difficult theological and economic questions
that arise in the pursuit of this objective.
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And
Why Not? Morality and Business
By François Michelin
This book-length extended interview provides fascinating
insights into the mind of François Michelin, the former
managing partner of Group Michelin. In one of the few interviews
he has ever given, Michelin sat down with two journalists
and discussed his management philosophy and his deeply felt
Christian faith. Apart from offering subtle theological reflections
into the nature of business, Michelin speaks eloquently about
the creative dimension of free enterprise and the human aspect
of life in the commercial world.
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The
Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns
in Economic Research
By Andrew Yuengert
Exploring recent controversies over the role of ethics in
economics, The Boundaries of Technique encourages scholars
and students to discover and debate the ways in which economics
is insulated from ethics and the ways in which it is dependent
upon it. Using the moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, Author
Andrew Yuengert brings readers to a deeper awareness of the
intrinsic involvement of the individual and the responsibility
of moral choice.
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