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Building on Sand

THE ECONOMY & THE COMMON GOOD

William T. Cavanaugh

Our economy is based largely on fantasy, a flight from reality that has led to a series of unsustainable economic choices and the crisis we are now experiencing. In contrast, the idea of the common good is based on a realistic understanding of limits, both human and economic. It is a concept that can help us understand and right our current situation. The present economic crisi (...)


 

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William T. Cavanaugh, associate professor of theology at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is co-editor with Peter Scott of The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology.

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