Economy of Grace
Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.
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"As international economic change accelerates and globalization becomes inevitable, Christians and others have asked: Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism?" University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner answers affirmatively in this creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and a practical program for change. She finds in the Christian story an unyielding concern with economic matters and specific principles of economics and economic justice that can be brought into conversation with global capitalism today. At the heart of that story is the reality of God's gift of grace, a noncompetitive relationship that models a very different type of economy.
1An economy of grace?1What has Christianity to do with economics2Money means grace and grace means money6The dangers of semantic analysis8The pros and cons of a formal analysis10The potential for noncompetitiveness22An economically irrelevant pipe dream?282Imaging alternatives to the present economic system31Theological economy's response to capitalism32Capitalist exchange and exclusive property34Locke, inalienable property, and loan40Grace, gift exchange, and the freely given gift47An economy of grace623Putting a theological economy to work87The challenge of a theological economy89The significance of economic interdependence92Welfare and unconditional giving99Capitalist competition and the principle of noncompetitiveness105Non-marketable goods and noncompetitive possession and use129The will for change140
