Prosperity with a purpose : christian faith and values in a time of rapid economic growth /
Prosperity with a purpose : christian faith and values in a time of rapid economic growth /
Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference.
- Dublin : Veritas, 1999.
- 109 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: (pages 104-109).
Part one: Introduction -- Why we write -- Part two: Looking back -- Why look back? -- Celebrating the economic turnaround -- Appreciating the causes of the turnaround -- Appreciating the role of values -- The economic boom as 'the work of many human hands' -- Part three: Looking around -- The need for frank appraisal -- Priority to the common good -- Housing and homelessness -- Stewardship of the environment -- Income adequacy and poverty -- Long-term unemployment -- Early school leavers -- Urban disadvantage -- Rural disadvantage -- People with disabilities -- The prison population -- Former emigrants who remained low-skilled -- The travelling people -- Refugees and asylum-seekers -- Looking within -- What we mean by looking within -- Economic progress and human happiness -- More of everything, except time? -- More of everything, except security? -- Rearing children well at a time when they are a key consumer market -- The bible and wealth -- Part five: Looking forward -- The reasons for looking forward -- Ireland's prosperity and poorer nations -- Major societal choices facing Ireland -- The time for imaginative and bold changes -- The dignity of the human person -- An ethic of consumption -- An ethic of work -- An ethic of civic responsibility.
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Christianity--Economic aspects.
Christian sociology.
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Bibliography: (pages 104-109).
Part one: Introduction -- Why we write -- Part two: Looking back -- Why look back? -- Celebrating the economic turnaround -- Appreciating the causes of the turnaround -- Appreciating the role of values -- The economic boom as 'the work of many human hands' -- Part three: Looking around -- The need for frank appraisal -- Priority to the common good -- Housing and homelessness -- Stewardship of the environment -- Income adequacy and poverty -- Long-term unemployment -- Early school leavers -- Urban disadvantage -- Rural disadvantage -- People with disabilities -- The prison population -- Former emigrants who remained low-skilled -- The travelling people -- Refugees and asylum-seekers -- Looking within -- What we mean by looking within -- Economic progress and human happiness -- More of everything, except time? -- More of everything, except security? -- Rearing children well at a time when they are a key consumer market -- The bible and wealth -- Part five: Looking forward -- The reasons for looking forward -- Ireland's prosperity and poorer nations -- Major societal choices facing Ireland -- The time for imaginative and bold changes -- The dignity of the human person -- An ethic of consumption -- An ethic of work -- An ethic of civic responsibility.
1853903493
Christianity--Economic aspects.
Christian sociology.
261.8