In Search of the Good Life
Book description
Rebecca Todd Peters provides a helpful overview of the complicated contemporary debates about globalization. By engaging in a careful reading of the cacophony of views on the subject, she unearths four identifiable positions within these debates, each offering a different moral vision of the world. As she observes, policy debates…
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Professor Peters was my first and foremost guide when it came to framing the ethics of globalization from within my own religious perspective.
She helped all of us later writers by mapping the academic terrain, describing two dominant theories of globalization and two resistance theories. The two dominant theories are neoliberalism (as exemplified by Thomas Friedman) and reformist social development (as exemplified by John Maynard Keynes), while the two resistance theories stem from ecological and postcolonial perspectives.
She evaluates all four theories according to how they contribute (or don’t) to human flourishing. While I don’t always agree with her conclusions,…
From Scott's list on the religious ethics of globalization.
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