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Faith, Morals, and Money: What the World's Religions Tell Us About Ethics in the Marketplace

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Faith, Morals, and Money is a book for our time and is the book FOR THIS MOMENT. As we as individuals and a nation anguishes over another corporation's ethical failures, a new book offers important guidance. For centuries economists have ignored the rich resource of religious wisdom about money and its uses. Business schools have paid only the slightest attention to the ethical dimensions of trade and business practices. On the other hand, we live in a marketplace and what could be more saturated with issues of right and wrong than the manner with which we acquire and use money.

This book brings to the surface the long tradition of ethical thinking and religious laws on money matters. Written clearly and with copious examples from current business practice, the author, Edward D. Zinbarg, explicates the economic thinking of the great religions of the West and the East. Zinbarg's well-documented argument is that, while our major religions have somewhat differing rules and imperatives, there is also great overlapping and complementarity. The message is particularly important at this time of intense globalization. A fascinating and timely read.