Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Economics in Spirit and Truth

A Moral Philosophy of Finance

  • Book
  • © 2014

Overview

Authors:
  1. Nimi Wariboko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies (RADT)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Economics Is Not an Alien Monster

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Idea of Finance

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 19-38

  4. Theological-Ethical Critique of Accounting

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 39-55

  5. The Ontology of Moral Hazard in Finance

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 57-86

  6. Faith Has a Rate of Return

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 87-104

  7. The Knot of Finance

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 105-122

  8. A Political Theology of Market Miracles

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 123-158

  9. Care of the Soul: Resistance to Finance Capital as Virtue

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 159-171

  10. Conclusion: Rethinking Economic Ethics

    • Nimi Wariboko
    Pages 173-183

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-225
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Wariboko offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life.

Reviews

"Many philosophers and theologians rail against the neoliberal global economy but fail to provide any substantive solutions in response. Nimi Wariboko shows us how to live in but yet not be of our late modern financial systems. He invites us to exercise our freedom not merely to participate in the consumer market but to critically engage and resist its demands for conformity through an ethic of counter-predictability. Economists, philosophers, and theologians ought to attend to this clarion call to live authentically and (for religious people) faithfully amidst the volatility of the present capitalist regime." - Amos Yong, Professor of Theology and Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA

"Economics in Spirit and Truth builds on Wariboko's previous work, including God and Money. Here he analyzes the complex inner logic of finance capitalism, and draws on Pentecostal theology as well as Agamben's philosophy of potentiality to develop an ethics of antifragility. This is an extremely provocative synthesis, one that offers tools to think and practice a genuine care of the soul." - Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USA

About the author

Nimi Wariboko is the Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School. His academic research focuses on economic ethics, continental philosophy, and pentecostal studies. He is the author of The Pentecostal Principle (2012) and God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World (2008).

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation