The Impact of the Market

Coeditor, The Impact of the Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020) (with Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker and Stephen Pickard)

Volume 1 of a 10 volume series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies.

Project Series Description (Canopy Forum article)

List of Series Volumes Reprinted
Description

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. Individuals with differing values clamor for equality. Organizations and groups assert particular interests. Social movements flourish and fade. Some see in this clash of principles and aims the potential for a more just human community, while others fear the erosion of enduring culture. Yet beneath this welter stand powerful and pervasive institutions, whose distinctive norms shape our moral commitments and character.  These institutions include the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care and defense.  Drawing on scholarship from five continents, many disciplines, and diverse religious perspectives, this series examines the impact of these various institutions on moral education, character, and values. As globalization carries the shifting dynamic between individuals and institutions into every part of the globe, the contributors hope that this conversation will help address the increasing challenges confronting our pluralist societies and our world.  This volume explores the many tensions between market economics, ethics, and the Christian religion.

With Contributions by Jason Brennan, Michael J. Broyde, Ginny Seung Choi, Samuel Gregg, Peter Lampe, Manfred Lautenschläger, Frank J. Lechner, Klaus Leisinger, Katrin Gülden Le Maire, Piet Naudé, Paul Oslington, Stephen Pickard, William Schweiker, Virgil Henry Storr, Brent A. Strawn, Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker, Kaja Wieczorek, and John Witte, Jr.
Table of Contents​
  • Acknowledgments 
  • Preface to the Series
  • Introduction – Jürgen von Hagen

Part One: Systematic Contributions
  • Markets and the Human Character – Jürgen von Hagen
  • Commercial Society and its Values - The Merits of the Market in Social Theory – Frank J. Lechner
  • Growing up in the Market - The Character Traits that Markets Reward and Punish – Ginny Seung Choi and Virgil Henry Storr
  • How Market Society Affects Character – Jason Brennan
  • Understanding the Economic Impacts on Virtue and the Pursuit of Good – Paul Oslington

Part Two: Biblical and Historical Impulses
  • Law, Economy, and Charity - Formations in Torah and Talmud – Michael J. Broyde
  • Old Testament Principles of Economic Ethics – Jürgen von Hagen
  • Economic Conditions Impacting Luke’s Concept of Economic Solidarity – Kaja Wieczorek
  • Christian-Apocalyptic Protest from the First-Century 90s as a Reaction to Economic Conditions – Peter Lampe
  • Commerce, Finance, and Morality in the Thought of Early Modern Catholic Scholastics – Samuel Gregg
  • Oikos and Oikonomika - The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics – John Witte, Jr.

Part Three: Contemporary Perspectives
  • Pushing New Frontiers - The (Im)Possibility of Character Formation through ICT Products and Services – Katrin Gülden Le Maire
  • Can Character Formation Survive the Digital Economy? – William Schweiker
  • Rational Choice Theory and Virtuous Economics? - Problems and Possibilities  – Stephen Pickard
  • A Conceptual Analysis of “Value” in Select Business Literature and Its Implications for Ethical Educations – Piet Naudé

Part Four: Applications and Explanations               
  • Economics, Character, and Values - Vital Questions in Society – Manfred Lautenschläger
  • Nice Words Are Fine, But Hens Lay Eggs - Communication about Values Leads to Expectations of Practical Consequences – Klaus Leisinger
  • Entrepreneurs’ Ethics in South East Asia - Some Insights from Expert Interviews – Michael Welker
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  • Contributors