Andrew Hartropp - Gods Good Economy: Doing Economic Justice In Todays World

Ashcroft, John

Asmus, Barry

Atkinson, David. J.

Bailey, Andrew

Boatright, John R.

Bowyer, Jeremy

Brexit

Brue, Stanley L.

Catholic Social Teaching

Chester, Tim

Christians Against Poverty

Commission on Economic Justice (CEJ)

communism

Cooper, Ben

credit

Davies, John

debt

de Vaux, Roland

DeYoung, Kevin

Douglas, J. D.

Duncan, Rodger Dean

enterprise, social

equality

equity, equity stake

European Union

evangelism

fascism

Field, David H.

Fikkert, Brian

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Friedman, Milton

Gilbert, Greg

gleaning, principle of

globalization

gospel

Grameen Bank

greed

Green, David

Grudem, Wayne

Guinness, Os

Hartropp, Andrew

Hay, Donald

Holt, Robby

inequality

interest rate

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Jenkins, Patrick

Jubilee

Keynes, John Maynard

Kidner, Derek

Kim, Jim Yong

kingdom of God

Layard, Richard

Lewis, C. S.

loans: high-interest

McConnell, Campbell R.

Mason, John D.

Mayer, Colin

microfinance

Mills, Paul

negative externalities

OBrien, Peter T.

OCarroll, Lucy

oppression

pay, corporate executive

Pigott, G. J.

Piketty, Thomas

Pius XI, Pope

poverty

profit

regulation

Rhodes, Michael

Roine, Jesper

Ronsen, Sten

Royal Society for Public Health

Schluter, Michael

shareholders, shareholder value

shopping, ethical

slavery

Smith, Adam

stakeholders

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Storkey, Alan

sub-prime lending

supply chain

Timmis, Steve

trade union

Trussell Trust

wages

Windsor, Duane

Winter, Bruce W.

Wolf, Martin

World Bank

Wright, Chris

Yunus, Muhammad

An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to an important and complex subject. This helpful book will encourage you to explore Scripture, search your heart and change the way you engage with the world around you.

Helen Thorne , Director of Training and Mentoring, London City Mission

Andy Hartropp is well placed to write on economic justice with doctorates in both economics and theology. He does so with care, attention and insight. Andy is particularly strong in setting out a biblical framework of justice rooted in Gods character, built into his created order and expounded for us in his written word. Much of the ethical and other dilemmas in business derive from the interaction of these ideas. Andy is balanced, avoids the boxing of biblical perspectives into the inadequate categories of left and right and brings some welcome corrective to some of the overemphasis in evangelical thought on the matters of jubilee. He relates this to the world in which we live, the challenge of consumerism, high-interest lending, the workplace and the role of the company. Economic justice is a complex topic which Andy treats well and makes accessible.

Richard Turnbull , Director, Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, Oxford

Andrew Hartropp is an economist, theologian and Anglican church minister. He has PhDs in economics (University of Southampton) and Christian ethics (Kings College London). His publications include What Is Economic Justice? (Paternoster). He is Associate Fellow of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics.

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This book is for anyone who is interested in having a good economy. When I say good, I mean something more than efficient or growing. If you ask an economist, Is the economy doing well ?, you might expect an answer along the lines of Yes, national output is likely to grow by 2% or more this year. But this book is about moral goodness in the economy.

I want to persuade you that doing justice is central to having a good economy. But I also want to show you that we need to rediscover what economic justice actually is. Lots of people like the idea of economic justice, but what if we are confused about what it means?

There may be a lot of surprises for you in this book. For example, the suggestion that economic justice and God have anything at all to do with each other may come as a surprise. But in that case, you should read on!

I am an economist, theologian and church minister. As a Christian, who has been thinking for more than twenty years about what economic justice is, I am convinced that God loves justice including justice in economic life. So I also want to persuade you that the roots of economic justice are found in God and in his character. I want to share with you what I have been discovering about doing economic justice on the basis of what God himself reveals to us in his written word (Scripture) and in the person of Jesus Christ.

Here is another thing that may surprise you: to do economic justice is from my discovery all about how we relate to one another in our economic dealings, such as buying, selling, working, producing and trading. So, doing economic justice involves all of us in our relationships. We cannot simply leave economic justice to the government.