Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption
This book explores the under-researched sources of the consumerist culture and the environmental damage it has brought about. The book is an outcome of the symposium on “The Ethics of Consumption” organised and hosted by the Las Casas Institute at the Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford as part o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Virtues and Economics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: From gluttony and avarice to moderation and virtue
- Chapter 1. Blessed are the Gentle (Joshtrom Kureethadam)
- Chapter 2. Avarice in post-modern society (Stefano Zamagni)
- Chapter 3. What is Enough (Margaret Atkins)
- Chapter 4. Buddhism and the Right Consumption (Laszlo Zsolnai)
- Chapter 5. Good consumption in the perspective of Thomistic Personalism (Laura Baritz)
- Part II : Is mainstream economics to blame?
- Chapter 6. Political Economy, Moral Reasoning and Global Warming (David Rose)
- Chapter 7. A Critical Approach to Critiquing Economics (Geoffrey Brennan, Hayden Wilkinson)
- Chapter 8. Response from Peter Róna
- Chapter 9. Economics and three faces of prudence (Edward Skidelsky)
- Part III: Way forward
- Chapter 10. Social Trust, Virtue, and Market Coordination (Dominic Burbidge)
- Chapter 11. A Deeper Humanity: The Family as the School of an Inclusive Economy (Joseph Rice)
- Chapter 12. A radically new way to tune compound interest and its implications (Eors Szathmary)