Economics in Spirit and Truth A Moral Philosophy of Finance

Economics in Spirit and Truth offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life. The book calls us to think beyond the limits of most theological, economic, and philosophical thoughts to initiate a new thinking on the necessary praxis of freedom in a period of fiercely free-moving capital.

Nimi Wariboko is the Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, USA. He is the author of God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World (2008); The Depth and Destiny of Work (2008), Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership (2013), The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion (2014).

Preface
Introduction: Economics is not an Alien Monster
1. The Idea of Finance
2. Theological-Ethical Critique of Accounting
3. The Ontology of Moral Hazard in Finance
4. Faith has a Rate of Return
5. The Knot of Finance
6. A Political Theology of Market Miracles
7. Care of the Soul: Resistance to Finance Capital as Virtue
Conclusion: Rethinking Economics Ethics