{"product_id":"distant-markets-distant-harms-economic-complicity-and-christian-ethics-9780199371006","title":"Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics","description":"Does a consumer who bought a shirt made in another nation bear any moral responsibility when the women who sewed that shirt die in a factory fire or in the collapse of the building? Many have asserted, without explanation, that because markets cause harms to distant others, consumers bear moral responsibility for those harms. But traditional moral analysis of individual decisions is unable to sustain this argument. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistant Harms, Distant Markets\u003c\/em\u003e presents a careful analysis of moral complicity in markets, employing resources from sociology, Christian history, feminism, legal theory, and Catholic moral theology today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecause of its individualistic methods, mainstream economics as a discipline is not equipped to understand the causality entailed in the long chains of social relationships that make up the market. Critical realist sociology, however, has addressed the character and functioning of social structures, an analysis that can helpfully be applied to the market. The True Wealth of Nations research project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an international group of sociologists, economists, moral theologians, and others to describe these causal relationships and articulate how Catholic social thought can use these insights to more fully address issues of economic ethics in the twenty-first century. The result was this interdisciplinary volume of essays, which explores the causal and moral responsibilities that consumers bear for the harms that markets cause to distant others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Finn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199371006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel K. Finn\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches Economics and Theology at St. John's University in Collegeville Minnesota. He has published widely on economics and ethics, including \u003cem\u003eThe Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJust Trading: On the Ethics and Economics of International Trade.\u003c\/em\u003e He is a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Association for Social Economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Us","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44279186063475,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":93.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_176f30bb-a82a-4efb-9acc-b57026cec538.jpg?v=1770470284","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/distant-markets-distant-harms-economic-complicity-and-christian-ethics-9780199371006","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}