Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics

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Albino Barrera

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New Studies in Christian Ethics

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Markets can often be harsh in compelling people to make unpalatable economic choices any reasonable person would not take under normal conditions. Thus workers laid off in mid-career accept lower paid jobs that are beneath their professional experience for want of better alternatives. Economic migrants leave their families and cross borders (legally or illegally) in search of a livelihood and countless Third World families rely on child labor to supplement meagre household incomes. These are examples of economic compulsion, an all-too-frequent state of affairs in which people are driven to make choices under acute economic duress. These economic ripple effects of market operations have been virtually ignored in ethical discourse because they are generally accepted to be the very mechanisms that shape the market's much-touted allocative efficiency. Albino Barrera argues that Christian thought on economic security offers an effective framework within which to address the consequences of economic compulsion.

Author Biography:

Professor Albino Barrera teaches in both theology and economics at Providence College. His most recent book is Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy published in 2001.

Release date Australia

September 8th, 2005

Author

Albino Barrera

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

268

Series

New Studies in Christian Ethics

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780521853415

Product ID

2358954

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