Economic compulsion and Christian ethics

Abstract

General editor's preface Preface Part I. The Nature and Dynamics of Economic Compulsion: 1. Markets and coercive pecuniary externalities 2. The regressive incidence of unintended burdens Part II. Setting the Moral Baseline and Shaping Expectations: 3. Economic security as God's twofold gift 4. Retrieving the biblical principle of restoration Part III. Contemporary Appropriation: 5. Economic rights-obligations as diagnostic framework 6. Application: the case of agricultural protectionism 7. Summary and conclusions References Index.