Theology and Sharing the Economic Cake

Peter Vardy

Chapter 8 in Welfare and Values, 1997, pp 90-102 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Several chapters in this book, particularly those by Andrew Dilnot and Ian Steedman, deal with the seemingly inexorable growth in government spending and the widening gap between the aspirations of the electorate in Western democracies and the economic ability to deliver. There has been a failure of political will to deal with the problems, but more than this, generally accepted political wisdom regarding our institutions has also failed. Theology could, in principle, instigate innovative thinking and aid an approach to the problems rather than add to them by a failure to take seriously the practical realities.

Keywords: Government Spending; Personal Responsibility; Liberation Theologian; Fictitious Story; Individual Shareholder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25547-4_8

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