Market complicity and Christian ethics /:

"The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our reach so shoppers in the West can now buy fresh-cut flowers, vegetables, and tropical fruits grown halfway across the globe even in the depths of winter. However, these expanded choices have also come with conside...

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1. Verfasser: Barrera, Albino
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:New studies in Christian ethics ; v. 29.
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Zusammenfassung:"The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our reach so shoppers in the West can now buy fresh-cut flowers, vegetables, and tropical fruits grown halfway across the globe even in the depths of winter. However, these expanded choices have also come with considerable moral responsibilities as our economic decisions can have far-reaching effects by either ennobling or debasing human lives. Albino Barrera examines our own moral responsibilities for the distant harms of our market transactions from a Christian viewpoint, identifying how the market's division of labour makes us unwitting collaborators in others' wrongdoing and in collective ills. His important account covers a range of different subjects, including law, economics, philosophy, and theology, in order to identify the injurious ripple effects of our market activities"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 312 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-299) and index.
ISBN:9781139078337
113907833X
9781139065740
1139065742
9781139063715
1139063715
9780511758614
0511758618

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