Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy

by Mary L. Hirschfeld

Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Hirschfeld, who was a professor of economics for fifteen years before training as a theologian, seeks to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674986407
• ISBN13: 9780674986404
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"