Author
J. Philip Wogaman
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
SCM Press
Published
April 2012
Today's Price
£18.59
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Economics and Ethics
Today's Price £18.59
Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Author
J. Philip Wogaman
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
SCM Press
Published
April 2012
£18.59
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Economics and Ethics
Today's Price £18.59
Add both to basket for £43.41
The impression is often given by politicians and others that economic life can be reduced to a series of problems that are experienced in common by all of us and which can be 'solved' if only we bend our common will and creative intelligence to the task. However, such an approach, which ignores value questions in the name of pure pragmatism, is naive in the extreme. A great deal depends on how problems are defined in terms of value. For solutions to problems for one set of people (even though they may be the majority) create a whole new set of problems for another set of people (who while they may be a minority, may be a large minority and should not be ignored). At the very least, a question of priorities is raised, in a context of conflicting interests, and this calls for ethical judgments. This book explores the nature of such ethical judgments, who makes them, and on what values they are based. After looking at economic problems and human values and the way in which they are made, Professor Wogaman asks whether there is a theological basis for social priorities.
He then considers contemporary economic realities in general before focussing on more specific issues like equity and security, employment and education opportunity, conservation and the need for a new world order, before inexorably forcing home his final conclusions: 'Saying Yes Means Saying No'.
Author
J. Philip Wogaman
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
SCM Press
Published
April 2012
Weight
196g
Page Count
160
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 9 mm
ISBN
9780334003663
ISBN-10
0334003660
Eden Code
4533335
More Information
Author/Creator: J. Philip Wogaman
ISBN: 9780334003663
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date: April 2012
Weight: 196g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 9 mm
Eden Code: 4533335