The Value of Money

Ethics and the World of Finance
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-567-03090-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

This timely study fulfils the need for an ethical examination of global finance which is both theologically and economically literate. Cowley tackles the assumption that economic factors are pivotal in driving globalization forward. She argues that economic factors are themselves driven: they are the working out of underlying phenomena. Of these, the most pervasive and influential is money, not only in the sense of the finance sector, but also money itself, the symbolic properties that it possesses.

The Value of Money looks at how these properties shape the nature of the finance sector, its activities, and the relationships within it and with the rest of the economy. It also examines the effect of money on our understanding of freedom, of the market itself and of the ethical, issues arising from this, for individuals, the sector and for society as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowley, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Cowley
Dr Catherine Cowley ra teaches Christian Ethics at Heythrop College, University of London, and is Associate Director of the Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. She is a member of the Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption.