Distant Markets, Distant Harms

Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Does a consumer who bought a shirt made in another nation bear any moral responsibility when the women who sewed that shirt die in a factory fire or in the collapse of the building? Many have asserted, without explanation, that because markets cause harms to distant others, consumers bear moral responsibility for those harms. But traditional moral analysis of individual decisions is unable to sustain this argument. Distant Harms, Distant Markets presents a careful analysis of moral complicity in markets, employing resources from sociology, Christian history, feminism, legal theory, and Catholic moral theology today.Because of its individualistic methods, mainstream economics as a discipline is not equipped to understand the causality entailed in the long chains of social relationships that make up the market. Critical realist sociology, however, has addressed the character and functioning of social structures, an analysis that can helpfully be applied to the market. The True Wealth of Nations research project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an international group of sociologists, economists, moral theologians, and others to describe these causal relationships and articulate how Catholic social thought can use these insights to more fully address issues of economic ethics in the twenty-first century. The result was this interdisciplinary volume of essays, which explores the causal and moral responsibilities that consumers bear for the harms that markets cause to distant others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-05-15
Mått155 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199371006

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Daniel K. Finn teaches Economics and Theology at St. John's University in Collegeville Minnesota. He has published widely on economics and ethics, including The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets, and Just Trading: On the Ethics and Economics of International Trade. He is a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Association for Social Economics.

Table of Contents ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; Sociological Resources ; 1. Who is Responsible? Critical Realism, Market Harms, and Collective Responsibility ; Douglas Porpora ; 2. Structural Conditioning and Personal Reflexivity: Sources of Market Complicity, Critique, and Change ; Margaret Archer ; 3. Morality of Action, Reflexivity, and the Relational Subject ; Pierpaolo Donati ; 4. Global Warming: A Case Study in Structure, Agency, and Accountability ; John Coleman, S.J. ; Historical Resources ; 5. Early Christian Philanthropy as a <"Marketplace>" and the Moral Responsibility of Market Participants ; Brian Matz ; 6. How a Thomistic Moral Framework Can Take Social Causality Seriously ; Mary Hirschfeld ; Analytical Resources ; 7. Facing Forward: Feminist Analysis of Care and Agency on a Global Scale ; Christina Traina ; 8. The African Concept of Community and Individual in the Context of the Market ; Paul Appiah Himin Asante ; 9. Individuating Collective Responsibility ; Albino Barrera, O.P. ; Implications ; 10. Social Causality and Market Complicity: Specifying the Causal Roles of Persons and Structures ; Daniel K. Finn

This set of essays, individually and as a group, offer a very strong, diversified yet coherent treatment of a crucial question for economic ethics - moral causality in complex market relationships. I would find this volume very helpful for my own research and writing in economic ethics, and could foresee assigning it to advanced undergraduates or graduates in courses on economic ethics, or Catholic/Christian social thought.

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