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Business and
Economics
"Great Commission Companies"
Dr. Steve Rundle and Dr. Tom Steffen
In recent decades global missions have been revolutionized by
such movements as micro enterprise development efforts and
tent-making professionals working in restricted access
countries. But little has yet been said about the new missions
opportunities created by today's globalized economy. Nor has
much been documented about the role that corporations and
businesses can have in the missionary enterprise. Economist
Steve Rundle and missiologist Tom Steffen offer a new paradigm
for the convergence of business and missions--the Great
Commission Company.
-Amazon Book Description
 "Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business
Without Selling Your Soul"
John D. Beckett
In Loving Monday, John Beckett provides a compelling account
of how he has integrated a biblically based approach into his
company’s workplace. The result is a business that is respected
throughout the oil heating industry for its integrity and
ethics. Within the company, Beckett’s employees find a dynamic
work environment where excellence is expected, and where each
person is viewed with great dignity and individual worth.
-From kettcorp.com
"The Mystery of Capital"
Hernando De Soto
It's become clear by now the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse of communism in most places around the globe hasn't
ushered in an unequivocal flowering of capitalism in the
developing and postcommunist world. Western thinkers have blamed
this on everything from these countries' lack of sellable assets
to their inherently non-entrepreneurial "mindset." In this book,
the renowned Peruvian economist and adviser to presidents and
prime ministers Hernando de Soto proposes and argues another
reason: it's not that poor, post-communist countries don't have
the assets to make capitalism flourish. As de Soto points out by
way of example, in Egypt, the wealth the poor have accumulated
is worth 55 times as much as the sum of all direct foreign
investment ever recorded there, including that spent on building
the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam.
-Amazon Book Description>
"Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life"
Michael Novak
In straightforward language, Novak sets out to refute the
popular conception that business leaders are materialistic and
rapacious, asserting that "business not only creates social
connections, lifts its participants out of poverty, and builds
the foundation of democracy, but also can and must be morally
uplifting." His central conceit is that, like the work of
priests and ministers, the labors of businessmen and -women are
often animated by a sense of calling. Novak cites a 1990 poll
that found that after military officers, "more people in
business attended church every week than any other elite." While
it remains to be proven that the morals espoused in church or
temple can and do hold sway on the battlefields of market
competition, Novak's meditations should cause those who believe
"enlightened capitalism" to be an oxymoron to think twice. FYI:
Novak won the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
-Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
 "Christianity and Economics in the Post-Cold War Era"
Herbert Schlossberg, Ron Sider and Vinay Samuel
Developed from the second Oxford Conference on Christian
Faith and Economics held in Oxford, England, in 1990, this book
reproduces the Oxford Declaration itself and eleven critical
responses to what is being called the most important evangelical
declaration on the subject of Christian faith and economics in
decades.
-Amazon Book Description
"Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered"
E.F. Schumacher
The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in
scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and
Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."
-The New Republic
"Development as Freedom"
Amartya Sen
When Sen, an Indian-born Cambridge economist, won the
1998 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, he was praised by the
Nobel Committee for bringing an "ethical dimension" to a
field recently dominated by technical specialists. Sen here
argues that open dialogue, civil freedoms and political
liberties are prerequisites for sustainable development. He
tests his theory with examples ranging from the former
Soviet bloc to Africa, but he puts special emphasis on China
and India.
-From Publishers Weekly
"Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger"
Ronald J. Sider
Rich Christians In An Age Of Hunger is written for our
times, when every day more than 34,000 children die of
starvation and preventable diseases, and 1. 3 billion human
beings live in relentless, unrelieved poverty worldwide. Why
is there still so much poverty in the world? Conservatives
blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals
condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is
wrong? Both, according to Ronald Sider in this newly
revised, expanded and updated edition of Rich Christians In
An Age Of Hunger. Sider explains that poverty is the result
of complex causes, and then he presents practical, workable
proposals for change, proposals that should be taken up by
every man and every woman who seeks to deserve the title
"Christian" and to apply and to follow the teaches of Jesus
of Nazareth in the modern world.
-Midwest Book Review
"When Corporations Rule the
World"
David C. Korten
This well-documented, apocalyptic tome describes the global
spread of corporate power as a malignant cancer exercising a
market tyranny that is gradually destroying lives, democratic
institutions and the ecosystem for the benefit of greedy
companies and investors. Korten (Getting to the 21st Century)
points out his conservative roots and business credentials, and
then proceeds to finger such classic conspiracy-theory
scapegoats as the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign
Relations as the planning agents of the new world economic order
he decries. Korten, founder of the People-Centered Development
Forum, prescribes a reordering of developmental priorities to
restore local control and benefits. Suggested reforms include
shifting tax policies to punish greed and reward social
responsibility, placing a 100% reserve requirement on demand
deposits at banks and closing the World Bank, which he claims
encourages indebtedness in nations that can't afford it.
-Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
 "On
Moral Business, Classical and Contemporary
Resources for Ethics in Economic Life"
Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, and Shirley
J. Roels
"A Catholic Response to Economic Globalization"
Paul A. Cleveland
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