Calculated Futures : Theology, Ethics, and Economics

Calculated Futures examines the ethical and theological underpinnings of the free-market economy, investigating not only the morality of corporations and exchange rates, but also how the politics of economics shape people as moral agents. It does this less by insisting on the unfavorable effects of capitalism, and more by drawing on theological virtues, Christian doctrines, and liturgical practices to discover what they might show us about economic exchanges. Calculated Futures seeks a way forward by engaging economics as a social-scientific discipline without subordinating theology to it. Book jacket.

D. Stephen Long (Ph.D. Duke) is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University Nancy Ruth Fox (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Joseph's University Tripp York (Ph.D. Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University