Alternatives to Economics

Clive Beed is a retired senior lecturer from the University of Melbourne's Department of Economics. Co-author Cara Beed is a retired lecturer in sociology at the Australian Catholic University.

• 1 List of Tables2 Acknowledgements3 PrefaceChapter 4 Christian Belief as Relevant to Modern Socio-Economic LifeChapter 5 Christian Principles for the Organization of EmploymentChapter 6 Biblical Exegesis-Based Principles for Economic DistributionChapter 7 Christian Explanations for UnemploymentChapter 8 Socio-Economic Principles in Contemporary Christian and Islamic ThoughtChapter 9 A Christian Perspective on EconomicsChapter 10 Christians and the Autonomy of EconomicsChapter 11 Science and Contemporary EconomicsChapter 12 Naturalism and Contemporary EconomicsChapter 13 Causal Explanation and Laws in Naturalistic Social ScienceChapter 14 The Status of Economics as a Naturalistic Social ScienceChapter 15 Intellectual Progress and Academic EconomicsChapter 16 A Christian Response to Naturalistic Social ScienceChapter 17 The Methodology of Christian Socio-Economic Analysis18 Bibliography19 Index

This is the most thoroughgoing exposure of the sheer irrationality of the naturalistic assumptions of modern economics so far achieved. The authors also begin to take further the development of a Christian economic thought into the realm of real, practicable proposals.