Macro-Economics

An immeasurable amount of work has been published on the topic of Macro-Economics. Please see a reading list we have collected to point out a few we think are important.

"Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism”
Weber, Max. Ch. 5 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 102-125. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in 1930.
"Can Markets Change Society?"
Chen, Zhiwu. Q2 (Fall 2007): 87-97.
"China's Fragile Future."
Plummer, Scott. The Tablet (August 2, 2008).
"Economic Ethics."
Harvey, Peter. Ch. 5 in An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues, 187-238. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
"Excerpt from “Introduction to Social Science”"
Pareto, Vilfredo. “Introduction to Social Science.” Ch. 2 in Manual of Political Economy, edited by Ann S. Schwier and Alfred N. Page, translated by Ann S. Schwier, 45. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971.
"Globalization and the Common Good"
Cahill, Lisa Sowle. In Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Present Crisis, Future Hope, edited by John Aloysius Coleman and William F. Ryan, 42-54. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.
"God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World"
Mead, Walter Russell.Chs. 13-17, 220-96. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
"Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald's: Conversion to Christianity in Urban China."
Yang, Fenggang. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44, no. 4 (2005): 423-39.
"Managed Globalization: State Power and Cultural Transition in China."
Yan, Yunxiang. In Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World, edited by Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington, 19-44. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
"Profit and Righteousness in Chinese Economic Culture."
Brook, Timothy. In Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, 27-44. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
"Spirit of Capitalism: Religion and Economic Development."
Barro, Robert J. Harvard International Review 24, no. 4 (2004): 64-7.
"The Characteristics of Islamic Economics."
Tāliqānī, Āyatullāh Mahmūd. In Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito, 229-35. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
"The Effect of Religion on Economic Development: A Cross National Study of 63 Former Colonies."
Grier, Robert. Kyklos 50, no. 1 (1997): 47-57.
"The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention."
Friedman, Thomas L. Ch. 10 in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 195-217. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
"The Moral Imperatives of Global Capitalism: An Overview."
Dunning, John H. In Making Globalization Good: The Moral Challenges of Global Capitalism, edited by John H. Dunning, 11-33. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
"The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism."
Weber, Max. Excerpt from Ch. 4 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 53-80. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in 1930.
"Tourist with an Attitude."
Friedman, Thomas L. Ch. 1 in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 3-24. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.