Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy

Daniel K. Finn is an economist and theologian, teaching at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), and the Association for Social Economics. He has published extensively on the relation of ethics and economics. He is director of the True Wealth of Nations research project at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies in Los Angeles.

• IntroductionPart I: Our Situation1. Understanding Our Individualistic Cultural Bias 2. Why Economics Sees Markets Individualistically 3. Are Consumers Responsible for Injustices a World Away?Part II: Critical Realism 4. Critical Realism and Natural Science 5. Social Structures 6. Power7. The Market as a Social Structure Part III: Implications8. Sinful Social Structures 9. Economic Ethics in a Stratified World10. What Can Be Done about Market Injustice? ConclusionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Finn succeeds in advancing a compelling theory of consumer moral agency and pushes the discipline of Christian ethics forward with constructive engagements with proponents of critical realism.