Crisis of Global Capitalism

Adrian Pabst is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent, UK, and teaches political economy at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lille (Sciences Po), France. He is the author of Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy (2012).

• Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Christianity and Capitalism1 A Real Third Way / John Milbank 2 A Tale of a Duck-Billed Platypus Called Benedict and His Gold and Red Crayons / Tracey Rowland PART II: Christianity and Socialism3 'We Communists of the Old School' / Eugene McCarraher 4 Beyond the Culture of Cutthroat Competition / Mark and Louise Zwick PART III: Civil and Political Economy5 Fraternity, Gift, and Reciprocity in Caritas in Veritate / Stefano Zamagni 6 The Paradoxical Nature of the Good / Adrian Pabst PART IV: Caritas in Veritate and Traditions of Christian Social Teaching7 The Anthropological Unity of Caritas in Veritate / David L. Schindler 8 Integralism and Gift Exchange in the Anglican Social Tradition, or Avoiding Niebuhr in Ecclesiastical Drag / John Hughes PART V: Distributism and Alternative Economies9 Common Life / Jon Cruddas MP and Jonathan Rutherford10 Equity and Equilibrium / John Médaille BibliographyIndex

Anyone interested in finding a 'third way' between today's barely regulated capitalism and state socialism will find much to reward them in this collection. It goes beyond the rigid limitations of contemporary liberal thinking in order to explore some of the crucial resources, intellectual and cultural, that we need to devise a new politics of the Left.