Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 M03 2 - 180 páginas
Christian tradition demands basic sustenance for all as a human right. Yet the contemporary capitalist economy makes no such demands, and the free market is not designed to provide basic human sustenance. As Western Christians, how ought we to solve this conundrum? Kent Van Til maintains that the gulf between the two calls for an alternative system of distribution.

In this constructively critical work Van Til takes a hard look at the realities of life in a free-market system, including illuminating examples from his own experience in Latin America. He considers how the contemporary capitalist economy guides the distribution of goods around the world, and he examines the inadequacies of this system. Drawing heavily on the ideas of political theorist Michael Walzer and nineteenth-century theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper, Van Til proposes an alternative system of distributive justice, equalizing the claims to both burdens and benefits.

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Using the Free Market as Distributor
12
Why the Poor Wont Necessarily Gain from
39
Even Markets Functioning in a Pareto Optimal Manner
51
Moving from the Bible to the Present
85
Distributing Benefits and Burdens according to Spheres Distributive Justice and Contemporary Theory 113
113
What We Can Really Accomplish
144
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149
BIBLIOGRAPHY
162
INDEX OF NAMES
175
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Kent A. Van Til has taught at Hope College, Kuyper College, Marquette University, and ESEPA Seminary in Costa Rica.He is also the author of Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the FreeMarket.,

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