Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
General Editor\'s preface......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
PART I The nature and dynamics of economic compulsion......Page 21
INTRODUCTION......Page 23
Mixed action......Page 24
The moral baseline......Page 25
A nonmoral account......Page 27
The bargaining position......Page 28
Coercion versus compulsion......Page 32
Consequential unintended effects......Page 36
Defining economic compulsion......Page 37
Circumscribed freedom of association......Page 39
Atomized economic agency......Page 43
Bounded rationality......Page 45
Pecuniary externalities......Page 47
Remote and proximate causes......Page 51
Revisiting Zimmerman\'s baseline......Page 55
Circumstantial versus interpersonal coercion......Page 56
CONCLUSION......Page 61
THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: THE MARKET AS AN  EFFECTIVE PRICE DISCRIMINATOR......Page 63
PERSONAL CAPABILITIES......Page 69
Objective valuation......Page 72
Race- and gender- based valuation......Page 74
Labor market compensation......Page 75
Credit markets......Page 77
Foreign direct investments......Page 83
Financial liberalization......Page 85
Missing or incomplete markets......Page 86
Unrestricted labor markets......Page 88
Dealing with volatility......Page 90
Insights from the poor and the ultrapoor......Page 91
Other examples......Page 92
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 93
PART II Setting the moral baseline and shaping expectations......Page 95
ECONOMIC SECURITY IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES......Page 97
Historicity......Page 98
Sociality and conditionality......Page 101
Individual effort......Page 104
Summary......Page 105
Access to basic needs......Page 107
The social character of economic security......Page 108
The requisite personal contribution......Page 109
Access to the gifts of the earth......Page 112
Corporate effort......Page 115
Personal work......Page 117
Summary......Page 119
ECONOMIC SECURITY AND THE SCHOLASTIC JUST PRICE......Page 120
ECONOMIC SECURITY IN MODERN CATHOLIC  SOCIAL DOCUMENTS......Page 123
Meeting basic needs......Page 124
The social dimension......Page 126
Personal effort......Page 128
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 129
LAW CODES......Page 131
Debt legislation......Page 133
Slave manumission......Page 136
Land return......Page 138
Mutual aid as constitutive of Covenant election......Page 141
Social mechanisms parallel to the market......Page 142
Progressive burden-bearing......Page 143
Not merely basic-needs provision......Page 146
Systemic and ongoing rather than ad hoc or reactive......Page 148
Taking responsibility......Page 149
Positive obligations......Page 150
THEOLOGICAL PRECEDENTS AND WARRANTS......Page 151
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 156
PART III Contemporary appropriation......Page 159
INTRODUCTION......Page 161
BIBLICAL ECONOMIC SECURITY AS A WARRANT FOR  HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 164
FROM BIBLICAL ECONOMIC SECURITY TO MODERN  ECONOMIC RIGHTS......Page 166
MEDIATING CONCEPTS......Page 172
Defining personal rights......Page 178
Defining social and instrumental rights......Page 181
For community members......Page 183
For the marginalized......Page 185
Revisiting Old Testament economic security as economic rights......Page 187
COMMON GOOD AS DUE PROPORTION.: RANKING  COMPETING CLAIMS......Page 190
Degrees of unmet needs......Page 191
The lexical ordering of social rights......Page 193
THE DIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK RECAPITULATED......Page 194
SUMMARY......Page 196
INTRODUCTION......Page 198
THE CASE FOR ASSISTANCE......Page 199
THE CASE AGAINST AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT......Page 203
The rights framework: locating where the clash occurs......Page 205
Commutative and legal justice......Page 206
Distributive justice......Page 209
The common good as due order: communal duties to the marginalized......Page 210
The common good as due order: collective duties to every member of the community......Page 211
The common good as due order : care for the goods of the earth......Page 215
OECD countries......Page 216
Less developed countries......Page 219
Lexical rules......Page 222
OECD farmers......Page 224
LDC constituencies......Page 227
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 229
chapter 7 Summary and conclusions......Page 233
WHAT IS AT STAKE AND WHY NOW.?......Page 234
WHY SHOULD ADVERSE PECUNIARY EXTERNALITIES MATTER?......Page 237
SHAPING EXPECTATIONS......Page 241
THE MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM......Page 244
References......Page 247
Index......Page 261