The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Pope Benedict XVIS Social Encyclical and the Future of Political Economy

The current economic crisis stems from a deeper crisis of cultural imagination and civilisational ethics: here is the starting point of this collection of essays which draw a new political economy facing the crisis of Western civilization. This book gathers together a range of audacious and provocative readings of Caritas in Veritate, the first papal encyclical that addresses issues immediately relevant for politic, economic, and social theory. These readings embody the kind of fruitful dialogue Pope Benedict XVI wanted to generate with his radical discourse for an alternative political economy.Table of ContentsTable of Contents:ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Christianity and Capitalism1 A Real Third Way / John Milbank2 A Tale of a Duck-Billed Platypus Called Benedictand His Gold and Red Crayons / TraceyRowlandPART II: Christianity and Socialism3 “We Communists of the Old School” / EugeneMcCarraher4 Beyond the Culture of Cutthroat Competition /Mark and Louise ZwickPART III: Civil and Political Economy5 Fraternity, Gift, and Reciprocity in Caritas inVeritate / Stefano Zamagni6 The Paradoxical Nature of the Good / AdrianPabstPART IV: Caritas in Veritate and Traditions ofChristian Social Teaching7 The Anthropological Unity of Caritas in Veritate /David L. Schindler8 Integralism and Gift Exchange in the AnglicanSocial Tradition, or Avoiding Niebuhr inEcclesiastical Drag / John HughesPART V: Distributismand Alternative Economies9 Common Life / Jon Cruddas MP and JonathanRutherford10 Equity and Equilibrium / John MédailleBibliographyIndex Read more