Personalist economics : moral convictions, economic realities, and social actions

__Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, and____Social Action__ examines the nature of the worker and consumer from a personalist perspective, comparing that body of knowledge to what is received from conventional economics. A running theme throughout this book is that personalist economics is attentive to both aspects of human material need - physical need and the need for work as such - in a way that does not disregard human wants. Accordingly, this book is more concerned about the philosophical base and description of the economy's significant characteristics than social economic policy. __Personalist Economics__ explores four dimensions of particularly acute human physical need: unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and death. In addressing these four aspects of need, the book delves into the second and third domains of social economics: description of the significant characteristics of the economy, and social economic policy. In the same way, __Personalist Economics__ explores two types of economic cooperation - supra-firm alliances and inter-firm partnerships - as means for addressing certain aspects of human material need. This book concludes with a lengthy discussion of the challenges facing personalist economics in the years ahead.

Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, and Social Action examines the nature of the worker and consumer from a personalist perspective, comparing that body of knowledge to what is received from conventional economics. A running theme throughout this book is that personalist economics is attentive to both aspects of human material need - physical need and the need for work as such - in a way that does not disregard human wants. Accordingly, this book is more concerned about the philosophical base and description of the economy's significant characteristics than social economic policy.
Personalist Economics explores four dimensions of particularly acute human physical need: unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and death. In addressing these four aspects of need, the book delves into the second and third domains of social economics: description of the significant characteristics of the economy, and social economic policy. In the same way, Personalist Economics explores two types of economic cooperation - supra-firm alliances and inter-firm partnerships - as means for addressing certain aspects of human material need. This book concludes with a lengthy discussion of the challenges facing personalist economics in the years ahead.

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Personalist Economics: Reconstructing Economics on Different Philosophical Premises....Pages 3-13 Justice and Charity: The Bulwark of Human Well-Being....Pages 15-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Meeting Physical Need and Satisfying Human Wants....Pages 35-47 The Need for Self-Expression and the Need to Belong....Pages 49-61 The Capitalist System and Unmet Human Material Need....Pages 63-72 Activating the Economic Processes to Meet Human Material Need and to Satisfy Human Wants....Pages 73-81 The Person and the Work of the Entrepreneur....Pages 83-103 The Unemployed: Unmet Physical Need and Other Effects....Pages 105-122 The Poor: Defined and Estimated in Terms of Subsistence Need and Economic Class....Pages 123-142 The Homeless: Degrees of Unmet Physical Need....Pages 143-153 The Dying: Health Care Needs and Attitudes Toward Death....Pages 155-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Productivity, Profitability, and Economic Insecurity....Pages 169-179 Meeting Human Material need and Satisfying Human Wants Through Workplace and Marketplace Cooperation....Pages 181-201 Challenges Ahead....Pages 203-214 Back Matter....Pages 215-229