Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence 9780824854522
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Interdependence and Relationality
1. The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle: How It All Fits Together
2. Value, Exchange, and Beyond: Betweenness as Starting Point
3. Triple Negation: Watsuji Tetsurō on the Sustainability of Ecosystems, Economies, and International Peace
4. Fouling Our Nest: Is (Environmental) Ethics Impotent against (Bad) Economics?
5. The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern Perspective
6. “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself !”
7. Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community: An Alternative Ethical Paradigm for Modern Aging Societies
8. Doing Justice to Justice: Seeking a More Capacious Conception of Justice from Confucian Role Ethics
Part II: Dynamism and Contextuality
9. Moral Equivalents
10. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and Postcoloniality
11. Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving: Lessons from Cultural Anthropology
12. John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder’s Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics
14. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and Freedom
15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics
16. Two Challenges to Market Daoism
17. Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights
18. The Conversation of Justice: Rawls, Sandel, Cavell, and Education for Political Literacy
19. Social Justice and the Occident
20. Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism: Combining Environmental with Humanist Social Ethics
21. Economic Growth, Human Well- Being, and the Environment
Part III: Equity and Diversity
22. The Moral Necessity of Socialism
23. Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism Thinking on Values and Justice
24. What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being?
25. What Is the Value of Poverty? A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle’s Politics and Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki
26. Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life
27. On the Justice of Caring Labor: An Alternative Theory of Liberal Egalitarianism to Dworkin’s Luck Egalitarianism
28. Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves
29. Institutional Power Matters: The Role of Institutional Power in International Development
30. The Value of Diversity: Buddhist Reflections on More Equitably Orienting Global Interdependence
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Interdependence and Relationality
1. The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle: How It All Fits Together
2. Value, Exchange, and Beyond: Betweenness as Starting Point
3. Triple Negation: Watsuji Tetsurō on the Sustainability of Ecosystems, Economies, and International Peace
4. Fouling Our Nest: Is (Environmental) Ethics Impotent against (Bad) Economics?
5. The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern Perspective
6. “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself !”
7. Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community: An Alternative Ethical Paradigm for Modern Aging Societies
8. Doing Justice to Justice: Seeking a More Capacious Conception of Justice from Confucian Role Ethics
Part II: Dynamism and Contextuality
9. Moral Equivalents
10. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and Postcoloniality
11. Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving: Lessons from Cultural Anthropology
12. John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
13. The Responsible Society as Social Harmony: Walter G. Muelder’s Communitarian Social Ethics as a Bridge Tradition for Confucian Economics
14. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and Freedom
15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics
16. Two Challenges to Market Daoism
17. Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights
18. The Conversation of Justice: Rawls, Sandel, Cavell, and Education for Political Literacy
19. Social Justice and the Occident
20. Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism: Combining Environmental with Humanist Social Ethics
21. Economic Growth, Human Well- Being, and the Environment
Part III: Equity and Diversity
22. The Moral Necessity of Socialism
23. Invaluable Justice: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism Thinking on Values and Justice
24. What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being?
25. What Is the Value of Poverty? A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle’s Politics and Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki
26. Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life
27. On the Justice of Caring Labor: An Alternative Theory of Liberal Egalitarianism to Dworkin’s Luck Egalitarianism
28. Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves
29. Institutional Power Matters: The Role of Institutional Power in International Development
30. The Value of Diversity: Buddhist Reflections on More Equitably Orienting Global Interdependence
Contributors
Index
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