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Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Albino Barrera
ISBN-13: 9780521043571, ISBN-10: 0521043573
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Albino Barrera

Professor Albino Barrera teaches in both theology and economics at Providence College. His most recent book is Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy published in 2001.

Book Synopsis

Barrera addresses adverse effects of market operations on individuals from the viewpoint of Christian ethics.

Table of Contents

1Markets and coercive pecuniary externalities3
2The regressive incidence of unintended burdens43
3Economic security as God's twofold gift77
4Retrieving the biblical principle of restoration111
5Economic rights - obligations as diagnostic framework141
6Application : the case of agricultural protectionism178
7Summary and conclusions213

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