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 | A Clash of Civilizations? Edited by Nicholas Capaldi Series: Conflicts and Trends in Business Ethics Copyright: 2006 | Status: Published ISBN: 9780976404101 | Hardcover | 1.75 lbs 448 pages Price: $69 USD  |
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Thirty-nine unique chapters examining the relationship between business and the main religions.
Audience
Business ethicists, Business leaders, religious leaders, theologians, moral philosophers, political scientists, and readers with an interest in organization and culture.
Business ethicists, Business leaders, religious leaders, theologians, moral philosophers, political scientists, and readers with an interest in organization and culture.
Description
The following questions are addressed:
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The following questions are addressed:
- Is a purely secular business ethics irremediably deficient?
- Does a substantive business ethic require a religious and spiritual framework?
- To what extent does current business practice reflect a spiritual dimension?
- What are the various religious traditions’ perspectives on the ethics of commerce?
- Can the various religious traditions generate a non-adversarial, consistent, and coherent business ethic?
- Is there a role for religion and spirituality in a global and post-modern business world?
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Reviews
This book should be interesting to specialists and libraries, especially at seminaries, schools of theology, and business schools with an emphasis on business ethics."
Journal of Business Ethics
This book should be interesting to specialists and libraries, especially at seminaries, schools of theology, and business schools with an emphasis on business ethics."
Journal of Business Ethics
In Business and Religion Capaldi accomplishes the goal he set himself: to bring together a variety of viewpoints in a single binding in order to stimulate thought and open up dialogue on a critical component of modern life.
The University Bookman
The University Bookman
Business and religion have existed side-by-side for millennia. As these essays demonstrate, the co-existence has not always been harmonious. Yet this book also suggests that the two, understood properly, can be mutually beneficial. It is a welcome contribution to a growing body of scholarship that seeks to appreciate more fully the connection between our relationship with God and our work in the market.
Fr. Robert A. Sirico, President, The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Fr. Robert A. Sirico, President, The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Serious and accomplished religious thinkers, philosophers, public policy specialists, and business people explore the ways in which commerce can be part of -- even central to -- a meaningful, inspired life in a just, flourishing social order. The writers do not deny the tensions between faith and commerce, but seek to show they are exactly that: tensions, rather than irreconcilable contradictions. They pave a path to a genuine business ethics, an ethics appropriate to commercial enterprise instead of a thinly-veiled political philosophy antipathetic to it.
Alexei M. Marcoux, Graduate School of Business, Loyola University, Chicago
Alexei M. Marcoux, Graduate School of Business, Loyola University, Chicago
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Table of Contents
Nicholas Capaldi: Introduction. (Download a PDF of this chapter)
PART I: ORIGINS AND NATURE OF THE CLASH
Tibor R. Machan: Can Commerce Inspire?
Michael C. Maibach: The Virtues of a Commercial Republic.
Mark S. Markuly: Ships Passing in the Night: The Conceptual Disconnects Between American Christianity and Capitalism.
Stephen V. Arbogast: "Disconnected at the Roots": How Gaps in Catholic Social Doctrine Impede Dialogue and Action on Economic Justice.
Art Carden: The Market s Benevolent Tendencies.
Walter Block: The Jews and Capitalism: A Love-Hate Relationship.
Robert H. Nelson: Doing "Secular Theology:" Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion.
Kevin E. Schmiesing: Why is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion? A Historical Perspective.
PART II: REGAINING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Peter A. Redpath: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Ethics of Commerce.
Seth W. Norton: The Deutronomic Double Standard: Human Nature and the Nature of Markets.
William F. Campbell: What Does America Owe to Florence?
Leonard P. Liggio: Property in Roman Religion and Early Christian Fathers.
Gary M Pecquet: Perestroika in Christendom: The Scholastics Develop a Commerce-Friendly Moral Code.
Joseph Keckeissen: The Concern of the Church and the Unconcern of the Free Market.
Harold B. Jones, Jr.: The "Conflict" Between Business and Religion: Where Does It Come From?
James R. Wilburn: Capitalism Beyond the "End of History".
PART III: THREE BRIDGES
Rabbi Daniel Lapin: An Explanation for Jewish Business Success.
Rev. John Michael Beers: The Virtue of Commerce in the Catholic Tradition.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics.
PART IV: APPLICATIONS. A Christian (Catholic) Business Ethics.
Rev. David A. Boileau: Can Theology Help Us in Applied Ethics?
Jean-Francois Orsini: The Sources and Spiritual Basis of Catholic Business Ethics.
Rev. Stephen C. Rowntree: Calling, Character, Community: Spirituality for Business People.
James R. Edwards, Jr.: "Mankind was my Business:" An Examination of a Christian Business Ethic and Its Applications to Various Ethical Challenges. A Corporate Governance.
James Cavill: Corporate Corruption: How the Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Ethical Practices of Joseph Badaracco May Help Understand and Limit Corporate Corruption.
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen: Corporate Social Responsibility: A Traditional Catholic Perspective.
Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.: Natural Law and the Fiduciary Duties of Business Managers.
Peter Koslowski: The Common Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager.
Gerald J. Russello: Subsidiarity as Business Model.
Krishna S. Dhir: The Hindu Executive and His Dharma.
PART V: GLOBALIZATION
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch: Spirituality and Entrepreneurship.
Ryszard Legutko: Business, Religious Spirituality and the East European Experience.
E. R. Klein: American Free Enterprise as an Enterprise in Freedom Abroad.
Irfan Khawaja: Islam and Capitalism: A Non-Rodinsonian Approach.
Himanshu Rai: The Role of Hinduism in Global India and Her Business Ethics.
Celestina O. Isiramen: The African Traditional Religion s Business Ethics: A Paradigm for Spirituality in the Global Business Ethical Standard.
Paul Chandler and Bartolomeu Romualdo: Faith-Correlated Responses to Rural Assistance in a Globalizing Brazil.
Armando de la Torre: The Worldly Failures of Liberation Theology.
Samuel Gregg / Globalization: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching.
CONCLUSION
Gordon Lloyd: The Archbishop of Canterbury: On the Facts and Values of Religion and Globalization. Indices.
Contributors:
Imad Aldean Ahmad is president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic think tank in the Washington, D.C. area.
Stephen V. Arbogast is treasurer for ExxonMobil Chemical Company in Houston, Texas.
Rev. John Michael Beers currently teaches at Ave Maria University in Naples, Fl. He also serves as President of the Annecy Institute for the promotion of Virtue and Liberty.
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar and Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at the College of Business Administration of Loyola University in New Orleans.
Rev. David Boileau teaches philosophy at Loyola University in New Orleans.
William F. Campbell is emeritus professor of economics at Louisiana State University and currently serves as secretary of the Philadelphia Society.
Nicholas Capaldi is the Legendre-Soul Æ’ ‚© Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics, at the National Center for Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans.
Art Carden is a Ph.D. candidate at Washington University in St. Louis where he studies economic history and development.
James C. Cavill is a retired executive from the oil industry. He is currently studying religion at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
Alejandro Chafuen serves on the Boards of several U.S., European and Latin American institutes including the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research.
Paul M. Chandler was a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil and presently teaches environmental history, resource conservation and development challenges at Ball State University in Indiana.
Krishna S. Dhir is professor of business administration and dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Georgia.
James R. Edwards, Jr., is principal and co-founder of Olive, Edwards, & Brinkmann, a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm.
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Nicholas Capaldi: Introduction. (Download a PDF of this chapter)
PART I: ORIGINS AND NATURE OF THE CLASH
Tibor R. Machan: Can Commerce Inspire?
Michael C. Maibach: The Virtues of a Commercial Republic.
Mark S. Markuly: Ships Passing in the Night: The Conceptual Disconnects Between American Christianity and Capitalism.
Stephen V. Arbogast: "Disconnected at the Roots": How Gaps in Catholic Social Doctrine Impede Dialogue and Action on Economic Justice.
Art Carden: The Market s Benevolent Tendencies.
Walter Block: The Jews and Capitalism: A Love-Hate Relationship.
Robert H. Nelson: Doing "Secular Theology:" Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion.
Kevin E. Schmiesing: Why is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion? A Historical Perspective.
PART II: REGAINING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Peter A. Redpath: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Ethics of Commerce.
Seth W. Norton: The Deutronomic Double Standard: Human Nature and the Nature of Markets.
William F. Campbell: What Does America Owe to Florence?
Leonard P. Liggio: Property in Roman Religion and Early Christian Fathers.
Gary M Pecquet: Perestroika in Christendom: The Scholastics Develop a Commerce-Friendly Moral Code.
Joseph Keckeissen: The Concern of the Church and the Unconcern of the Free Market.
Harold B. Jones, Jr.: The "Conflict" Between Business and Religion: Where Does It Come From?
James R. Wilburn: Capitalism Beyond the "End of History".
PART III: THREE BRIDGES
Rabbi Daniel Lapin: An Explanation for Jewish Business Success.
Rev. John Michael Beers: The Virtue of Commerce in the Catholic Tradition.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics.
PART IV: APPLICATIONS. A Christian (Catholic) Business Ethics.
Rev. David A. Boileau: Can Theology Help Us in Applied Ethics?
Jean-Francois Orsini: The Sources and Spiritual Basis of Catholic Business Ethics.
Rev. Stephen C. Rowntree: Calling, Character, Community: Spirituality for Business People.
James R. Edwards, Jr.: "Mankind was my Business:" An Examination of a Christian Business Ethic and Its Applications to Various Ethical Challenges. A Corporate Governance.
James Cavill: Corporate Corruption: How the Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Ethical Practices of Joseph Badaracco May Help Understand and Limit Corporate Corruption.
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen: Corporate Social Responsibility: A Traditional Catholic Perspective.
Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.: Natural Law and the Fiduciary Duties of Business Managers.
Peter Koslowski: The Common Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager.
Gerald J. Russello: Subsidiarity as Business Model.
Krishna S. Dhir: The Hindu Executive and His Dharma.
PART V: GLOBALIZATION
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch: Spirituality and Entrepreneurship.
Ryszard Legutko: Business, Religious Spirituality and the East European Experience.
E. R. Klein: American Free Enterprise as an Enterprise in Freedom Abroad.
Irfan Khawaja: Islam and Capitalism: A Non-Rodinsonian Approach.
Himanshu Rai: The Role of Hinduism in Global India and Her Business Ethics.
Celestina O. Isiramen: The African Traditional Religion s Business Ethics: A Paradigm for Spirituality in the Global Business Ethical Standard.
Paul Chandler and Bartolomeu Romualdo: Faith-Correlated Responses to Rural Assistance in a Globalizing Brazil.
Armando de la Torre: The Worldly Failures of Liberation Theology.
Samuel Gregg / Globalization: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching.
CONCLUSION
Gordon Lloyd: The Archbishop of Canterbury: On the Facts and Values of Religion and Globalization. Indices.
Contributors:
Imad Aldean Ahmad is president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic think tank in the Washington, D.C. area.
Stephen V. Arbogast is treasurer for ExxonMobil Chemical Company in Houston, Texas.
Rev. John Michael Beers currently teaches at Ave Maria University in Naples, Fl. He also serves as President of the Annecy Institute for the promotion of Virtue and Liberty.
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar and Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at the College of Business Administration of Loyola University in New Orleans.
Rev. David Boileau teaches philosophy at Loyola University in New Orleans.
William F. Campbell is emeritus professor of economics at Louisiana State University and currently serves as secretary of the Philadelphia Society.
Nicholas Capaldi is the Legendre-Soul Æ’ ‚© Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics, at the National Center for Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans.
Art Carden is a Ph.D. candidate at Washington University in St. Louis where he studies economic history and development.
James C. Cavill is a retired executive from the oil industry. He is currently studying religion at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
Alejandro Chafuen serves on the Boards of several U.S., European and Latin American institutes including the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research.
Paul M. Chandler was a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil and presently teaches environmental history, resource conservation and development challenges at Ball State University in Indiana.
Krishna S. Dhir is professor of business administration and dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Georgia.
James R. Edwards, Jr., is principal and co-founder of Olive, Edwards, & Brinkmann, a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm.
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
BUS008000: Business Ethics
REL000000 : Religion: General
PHI1005000 : Philosophy/Ethics & Moral Philosophy
BIC CODES
KJG : Business Ethics
HPQ : Ethics and Moral Philosophy
HRA : Religion Generalbisac codes
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