TY - BOOK ID - 118236109 TI - Market, Ethics and Religion : The Market and its Limitations PY - 2023 SN - 9783031084621 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Business ethics. KW - Economics. KW - Religion—Philosophy. KW - Human rights. KW - Social choice. KW - Welfare economics. KW - Business Ethics. KW - Political Economy and Economic Systems. KW - Philosophy of Religion. KW - Human Rights. KW - Social Choice and Welfare. KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Social policy KW - Choice, Social KW - Collective choice KW - Public choice KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Welfare economics KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Business KW - Businesspeople KW - Commercial ethics KW - Corporate ethics KW - Corporation ethics KW - Professional ethics KW - Wealth KW - Law and legislation KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118236109 AB - This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism. Few concepts are as controversial as religion and the market mechanism. Some consider religion to be in conflict with a modern rational scientific view of life, and thus as a contributory cause of harsh conflicts and a barrier to human happiness. Others consider religious beliefs as the foundation for ethics and decent behaviour. Similar, a number of neoliberal writers acclaimed the market mechanism as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind, and saw it as the main reason why rich countries became rich. Others are extremely skeptical and stress how this mechanism has result in big multinational firms with powerfully rich owners and masses of poor low-paid workers. Researchers from various fields - economists, social scientists, theologians and philosophers - handle these questions very differently, applying different methods and different ideals. This book offers a synthesis of the different viewpoints. It deals with economists’, theologians’ and philosophers’ differing thoughts about the market and its limitations. . ER -