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Title The crisis of global capitalism : Pope Benedict XVI's social encyclical and the future of political economy / edited by Adrian Pabst
Published Cambridge, U.K. : James Clarke and Co., 2012, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)
Contents Front cover ; Title page ; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Christianity and Capitalism; 1. The Real Third Way For a New Metanarrative of Capital and the Associationist Alternative, John Milbank; 2. A Tale of a Duck-Billed Platypus Called Benedict and His Gold and Red Crayons, Tracey Rowland ; Part 2. Christianityand Socialism; 3. "We Communists of the Old School"Benedict's Encyclical and the Future of Christian Socialism, Eugene McCarraher; 4. Beyond the Culture of Cutthroat Competition: The Pope Takes the World by Surprise, Mark and Louise Zwick
Part 3. Civil and Political Economy 5. Fraternity, Gift, and Reciprocity in Caritas in Veritate, Stefano Zamagni; 6. The Paradoxical Nature of the Good: Relationality, Sympathy, and Mutuality in Rival Traditions of Civil Economy, Adrian Pabst ; Part 4. Caritas in Veritate and Traditionsof Christian Social Teaching; 7. The Anthropological Unity of Caritas in Veritate: Life, Family, and Development, David L. Schindler; 8. Integralism and Gift Exchange in the Anglican Social Tradition, or Avoiding Niebuhr in Ecclesiastical Drag, John Hughes; Part 5. Distributism andAlternative Economies
9. Common Life: Ethics, Class, Community, Jon Cruddas MP and Jonathan Rutherford 10. Equity and Equilibrium: Why Distributive Justice Is Necessary for Economic Science, John Médaille ; Bibliography; Back cover
Summary The current economic crisis stems from a deeper crisis of cultural imagination and civilisational ethics: here is the starting point of this collection of essays which draw a new political economy facing the crisis of Western civilization. This book gathers together a range of audacious and provocative readings of Caritas in Veritate, the first papal encyclical that addresses issues immediately relevant for politic, economic, and social theory. These readings embody the kind of fruitful dialogue Pope Benedict XVI wanted to generate with his radical discourse for an alternative political econom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church.
Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Theology, Practical -- International cooperation
Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Secularism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Church and state -- Catholic Church.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Conflict management -- International cooperation
Emergency management -- International cooperation
International economic relations -- Public welfare
Disaster relief -- International cooperation
Humanitarian intervention -- Globalization -- Economic aspects
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- General.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church
Church and state -- Catholic Church
Conflict management -- International cooperation
Disaster relief -- International cooperation
Emergency management -- International cooperation
Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects
Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Christianity.
Form Electronic book
Author Pabst, Adrian
ISBN 9780227901373
0227901371
0227680162
9780227680162
1283866366
9781283866361
Other Titles Pope Benedict XVI's social encyclical and the future of political economy