The Value of Money: Ethics and the World of Finance

by Catherine Cowley

Overview

It is commonly observed that economic factors are pivotal in driving globalisation forward. A globalised economy is far more advanced than a globalised politics. However, if we are to fully understand what is happening, that assumption needs to be refined. This book argues that economic factors are themselves driven: they are the working out of underlying phenomena. Of these, the most pervasive and influential is money. This is not only money in the sense of the finance sector; it is also money in and of itself, the symbolic properties which money possesses. Crucially, this book takes both disciplines seriously, as equal conversation partners, and does not seek to use one approach to define the other as automatically inadequate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567030900
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/02/2006
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter One Introduction







Chapter Two Ethical Claims of the Market


Chapter Three Ethical Insufficiency of the Model









Chapter Four The Human Person









Chapter Five The Common Good







Chapter Six A Philosophy of Money





Chapter Seven The Financial Sector: An Initial Overview


Chapter Eight The Derivatives Market









Chapter Nine Risk, Volatility and Genoa Tendencies









Chapter Ten Regulation and the Problem of Integrity









Chapter Eleven The Individual, the Sector and the Common Good














Glossary









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