Sentences with phrase «traditions of economic thought»

In remarkably clear and accessible prose Heskett explores the how the key traditions of economic thought conceive of how value is created.

Not exact matches

It goes on to highlight «the difficulty of bringing together the perception of challenge with a new thinking (not just socio - economic) that could better describe, in a Christian fashion, the congruence of new facts with the language and syntheses already given by the tradition -LSB-...] Decisive is the recognition, whether positive or negative, of technology.

If our economic and technological advance has placed power in the hands of those who are not answerable to any democratic process; weakened our families neighborhoods as it turned individuals into mobile, competitive achievers; undermined our morality and stripped us of tradition — as I think it has — then we must consider where else to turn.

I don't think God even liked the tradition of economic servitude.

We are accustomed to thinking of the «costs» of modernization in the developing nations: the disrupted traditions, the break - up of families and villages, the impact of vast economic and social forces that can neither be understood nor adapted to in terms of inherited wisdom and ways of living.

And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).

Rousseau was a republican who applied these principles to his thinking on the economy, and it is this tradition of economic republicanism that is now being re-examined within academia.

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