RT Article
T1 Globalization's Shifting Economic and Moral Terrain: Contesting Marketplace Mores
JF Theological studies
VO 69
IS 2
SP 290
OP 308
A1 Barrera, Albino 1956-
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1776666704
AB Major shifts in economic life have always been accompanied by corresponding changes in the public's economic morality. Contemporary globalization is pulling the moral agent in opposite directions: greater moral obligations versus the competitive individualism required by an increasingly unforgiving marketplace. Moreover, the market, not governments or the grassroots, is emerging as the dominant determinant of popular economic morality and is profoundly reshaping people's self-understanding as persons and as a human community. The article argues that theological ethics plays an important role in contesting the market's moral baseline.
DO 10.1177/004056390806900203