Economics in Spirit and Truth

TRAMA

Wariboko offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life.

SOMMARIO

Preface Introduction: Economics is not an Alien Monster Chapter 1. The Idea of Finance Chapter 2. Theological-Ethical Critique of Accounting Chapter 3. The Ontology of Moral Hazard in Finance Chapter 4. Faith has a Rate of Return Chapter 5. The Knot of Finance Chapter 6. A Political Theology of Market Miracles Chapter 7. Care of the Soul: Resistance to Finance Capital as Virtue Conclusion: Rethinking Economics Ethics

AUTORE

Nimi Wariboko is the Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School. His academic research focuses on economic ethics, continental philosophy, and pentecostal studies. He is the author of The Pentecostal Principle (2012) and God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World (2008).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781137475497
• Collana: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XX, 225 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 225
• Pagine Romane: xx