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- Title
In What Sense Christian?: The Humane Economic Ethic of Wilhelm Röpke.
- Authors
McDaniel, Charles
- Abstract
Christian social thinkers who strongly support the free-market system often have drawn connections between the social values of their faith and the ideas of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. Hayek's comments on religion, however, seem to predict its demise for the sake of progress, whereas his colleague Wilhelm Röpke posits 'transcendent' religion and established moral traditions as essential to a humane economy. This essay contends that what Röpke described as 'enmassment' has similarities to the present 'financialization' of society, which involves the rising influence of financial values in all institutions, exaggerated emphasis on quantitative performance measures, and reliance on technical processes in lieu of human relationships. Röpke's 'Christian humanist' philosophy advances the kind of ethical entrepreneurialism needed to morally sustain a global society experiencing enmassment and financialization simultaneously.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANS; SOCIAL values; HAYEK, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992; ECONOMICS &; religion; FREE enterprise
- Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2016, Vol 44, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
0384-9694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jore.12134