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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Title Page; Praise; Dedication; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 -- A Leftist Undone; Left Turn; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 2 -- Why You Can't Have Freedom without a Free Economy; Freedom and Chaos; From Reason to the Reason for Property; Property in Practice; Trade, Contracts, and Interest Rates; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 3 -- Want to Help the Poor? Start a Business; Jobs: The Best Anti-Poverty Program; The Fallacy of the Fixed Pie; Foreign Aid That Doesn't; The Moral Appeal of Good Work; A Theology of Enterprise; Suggestions for Further Reading |
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CHAPTER 4 -- Why the "Creative Destruction" of Capitalism Is More Creative than DestructiveCreative Destruction, Creative Flourishing; Globalization, Christianity, and Culture; Globalization and Coercive Destruction; Globalization and Culture; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 5 -- Why Greed Is Not Good-and Why You Can Get More of It with Socialism ... ; What Is Greed?; The Role of Profits; Excess Profits?; Moral Profits; Beyond Gordon Gekko; The Apostle of Selfishness; The Socialist Mirage; The Personable Person and the Market; Suggestions for Further Reading |
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CHAPTER 6 -- The Idol of EqualityThe Value of the 1 Percent; Mind the Floor, Not the Ceiling; Do We Know Who We Are?; Equal Respect, Not Equal Conditions; Social Justice and the Common Good; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 7 -- Why Smart Charity Works-and Welfare Doesn't; Desiccated Compassion; Government Isn't the Only Institution; Desiccated Christianity; The Mayor of My Neighborhood; The Fatal Welfare Conceit; The Samaritan; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 8 -- The Health of Nations: Why State-Sponsored Health Care Is Not Compassionate; Fighting a Fire with Gasoline |
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Price, Profit, and CostLet Them Compete; Big Brother, Big Burden; The Secret to Slashing Costs; The Right to Health Care Understood Aright; The Religious History of Health Care; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 9 -- Caring for the Environment Doesn't Have to Mean Big Government; Christianity Caricatured; Environmentalism as an Extension of Marxism; Humanophobia; Beware the Zero-Sum Fallacy and Unintended Consequences; Suggestions for Further Reading; CHAPTER 10 -- A Theology for Economic Man; Vocation-Calling; The Dead; Suggestions for Further Reading; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes |
| Summary |
"The Left has seized on our economic troubles as an excuse to "blame the rich guy" and paint a picture of capitalism and the free market as selfish, greedy, and cruel. Democrats in Congress and "Occupy" protesters across the country assert that the free market is not only unforgiving, it's morally corrupt. According to President Obama and his allies, only by allowing the government to heavily control and regulate business and by redistributing the wealth can we ensure fairness and compassion. Exactly the opposite is true, says Father Robert A. Sirico in his thought-provoking new book, The Moral Case for a Free Economy. Father Sirico argues that a free economy actually promotes charity, selflessness, and kindness. And in The Moral Case for a Free Economy, he shows why free-market capitalism is not only the best way to ensure individual success and national prosperity but is also the surest route to a moral and socially-just society. In The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Father Sirico shows:Why we can't have freedom without a free economy and why the best way to help the poor is to a start a businessWhy charity works-but welfare doesn'tHow Father Sirico himself converted from being a leftist colleague of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden to recognizing the merits of a free economyIn this heated presidential election year, the Left will argue that capitalism may produce winners, but it is cruel and unfair. But as Sirico proves in The Moral Case for a Free Economy, capitalism does not simply provide opportunity for material success, but it ensures a more ethical and moral society as well"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Free enterprise -- United States
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Capitalism -- United States
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Right and left (Political science) -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise.
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Capitalism
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Free enterprise
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Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Right and left (Political science)
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781596988118 |
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1596988118 |
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