Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought

Daniel K. Finn is the William E. and Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts in the Department of Economics and professor of theology, both at St. John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict. His books include Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy: How Buying Here Causes Injustice There (Georgetown University Press, 2019), Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science, and Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics.

• Introduction , Daniel K. FinnPart I: Preliminary Evidence1. CEO Perspectives on Morality and Business, Regina Wentzel Wolfe2. Commerce and Communion in the History of Christian Thought, Jennifer A. Herdt Part II: The Internal Dynamics of Business3. Practical Wisdom and Management Science, Andrew M. Yuengert4. What Are Agency and Autonomy, and What Difference Do They Make for Business?, Gregory R. Beabout 5. What Is the Technocratic Paradigm, and Must Business Be Structured by It?, Mary HirschfeldPart III: The Wider Responsibilities of Business6. The Institutional Insight Underlying Shareholder/Stakeholder Approaches to Business Ethics, Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Michael J. Naughton 7. How Consumers and Firms Can Seek Good Goods, David Cloutier8. Are Businesses Responsible for the Moral Ecology in Which They Operate?, Martin Schlag9. The Social Mortgage on Business, Edward D. Kleinbard10. When Are Market Decisions Morally Legitimate?,K.J. Martijn CremersAfterword, James L. HeftBibliographyContributors Index

Under the editorship of Finn (theology, St. John's Univ.), this volume of ten essays superbly puts thepractices of business and the market under a moral lens shaped to a large degree by the writings of recent popes and the long tradition of Catholic social thought.