Journal of Markets & Morality

Journal of Markets & Morality

Volume 12, Number 1 • Spring 2009

The Spring issue of the journal includes a noteworthy study by Alan T. Y. Chan,, and Shu-kam Lee. In “Christ and Business Culture: Another Classification of Christians in Workplaces According to an Empirical Study in Hong Kong,” Chan and Lee outline four types of Christians at work: Christian soldiers, panic followers, strugglers, and Sunday Christians. Following the classification, Chan and Lee “develop a model of potential, evolutionary processes that these Christian types may follow using game-theory analysis” and conclude with “an empirical data set, which was conducted in Hong Kong, to illustrate our classifications and suggest potential strategies to efficiently allocate resources within Christian churches.”

Also in this issue:

• Andrew Abela: "Subsidiarity and the Just Wage: Implications of Catholic Social Teaching for the Minimum-Wage Debate"
• Kim Hawtrey & Stuart Dullard: "Corporate Virtue and the Joint-Stock Company"
• Steven Loomis & Jacob Rodriguez: "The Violence of Aggregation: Amartya Sen’s Possibility of Social Choice"
• Stefano Solari & Daniele Corrado: "Social Justice and Economic Order According to Natural Law"
• Jennifer Dirmeyer & Paola Revelo & Walter E. Block: "Poverty, Dignity, Economic Development, and the Catholic Church"
• Maurizio Ragazzi: "Concordats Today: From the Second Vatican Council to John Paul II"
• Keith Aaron Boozer: "Magnanimity: Aquinas’ Examination of the Aristocratic Virtue"

This issue also contains a wealth of helpful and incisive reviews of the latest books in Christian social thought, ethics and economics, and the philosophy, history, and methodology of economics. The editorial by executive editor Stephen Grabill, “Protestant Social Thought,” and article abstracts of current issues are freely available to nonsubscribers (you can sign up for a subscription here, including the very affordable electronic-only access option). And as per our "moving wall" policy of two issues, the most recent publicly-available archived issue is volume 11, number 1 (Spring 2008).

Note from the Editor:

After careful evaluation of the journal's past policy of unlimited access to both current and archived issues in light of a move to market the journal as an e-journal (as well as a print journal), it was determined that a sliding wall of restricted access to the two most current issues would be instituted. Effective immediately, nonsubscribers will continue to enjoy full access to all files in the archives but will have limited access to current issues of the journal. The exception to this rule is that all Scholia content requires a current subscription to the Journal. Subscribers, however, will continue to be able to access electronically the full content of current issues by typing a username and password at the login prompt. If you have any questions or would like futher information, please email webmaster@acton.org.

For more information about the electronic edition of the Journal of Markets & Morality, see Jordan J. Ballor, “Scholarship at the Crossroads: The Journal of Markets & Morality Case Study,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 36, no. 3 (April 2005).

Journal of Markets & Morality is a peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year–in the Spring and Fall. The journal promotes intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives. It seeks to bring together theologians, philosophers, economists, and other scholars for dialogue concerning the morality of the marketplace.