Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought

Daniel K. Finn is the William E. and Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts in the Department of Economics and professor of theology, both at St. John's University and the College of Saint Benedict. His books include Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy: How Buying Here Causes Injustice There (Georgetown University Press, 2019), Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science, and Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics.

Introduction Daniel K. Finn Part I: Preliminary Evidence1. CEO Perspectives on Morality and Business Regina Wentzel Wolfe2. Commerce and Communion in the History of Christian Thought Jennifer A. Herdt Part II: The Internal Dynamics of Business3. Practical Wisdom and Management Science Andrew M. Yuengert4. What Are Agency and Autonomy, and What Difference Do They Make for Business? Gregory R. Beabout 5. What Is the Technocratic Paradigm, and Must Business Be Structured by It? Mary Hirschfeld Part III: The Wider Responsibilities of Business6. The Institutional Insight Underlying Shareholder/Stakeholder Approaches to Business Ethics Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Michael J. Naughton 7. How Consumers and Firms Can Seek Good Goods David Cloutier8. Are Businesses Responsible for the Moral Ecology in Which They Operate? Martin Schlag9. The Social Mortgage on Business Edward D. Kleinbard10. When Are Market Decisions Morally Legitimate? K.J. Martijn Cremers AfterwordJames L. Heft Bibliography Contributors Index