Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought (American University Studies / Series 5: Philosophy, Band 137) - Hardcover

Chmielewski, Philip J.

 
9780820418513: Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought (American University Studies / Series 5: Philosophy, Band 137)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 082041851X ISBN 13: 9780820418513
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This study draws on the writings of crucial British (Smith, Ricardo, Marshall) and German (Hegel, Marx, Schmoller) political economists in order to derive a contemporary social ethic appropriate in the economic world and to indicate the requirements for economic concepts instrumental in reaching the common good. The book also discusses the works of two prominent modern figures (Pesch and Nell-Breuning) of Roman Catholic social teaching who explored the relation of principled values to economic analysis. Four interrelated perspectives on working persons guide the examination of these sources: the confrontation of the limits impinging on these workers, their collaboration in society, the use of technology and their service of each other. German codetermination, a significant form of democratic participation, provides a practical test for this treatment of work. The inquiry makes accessible many sources previously untranslated or not easily available. The interdisciplinary investigation concludes with a comprehensive normative theory which sets forth how the working person should stand at the center of discourse about work and its structures.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author: Philip Chmielewski is an assistant professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He received the Diplom Theologie at the Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. As the Visiting Senior Fellow (1990-1991) of the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, he pursued research in contemporary German ethics and social policy.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
082041851X
ISBN 13 
9780820418513
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
299
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