“Any sane economy has to rest in an exchange of gifts“
Well this is rather cool. In my post below on the Gift ‘vs.’ Economy, I suggested that a way forward would be toward some form of distributivism, linking to John Médaille’s book in the process, called The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace. Yesterday, I copy-and-pasted that post into a post over on the Church & Pomo blog, and John Médaille actually showed up and offered his comments! Turns out he has what looks to be a rather interesting group blog as well.
Hey, that is cool! I’m definitely going to have to read more of that group blog, for sure.
Economics is definitely an area in which I am deficient in my knowledge. I’m interested in writing my thesis on theology and environmental ethics, and as I’ve been reading recently I’m becoming more and more convinced that it is absolutely necessary for me to relate economic matters as well.
Jason Barr said this on December 18th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I drew on Médaille’s work for a portion of my dissertation, thinking that the essential factor in his work was his direct critique not of economic problems but directly of economics as discipline. Mail me to remind me (again) to send you a copy…
Alex said this on December 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm