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1 - Mortal Economies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2019
Summary
What business do we have with one another? We live in a global economy geared toward helping us grow. Indeed, we sometimes imagine that we simply do business for the sake of growth. But how are we growing? And why? Does our economy grow by expanding our power to satisfy our desires? And is that growth a joint venture simply because it is often easier to expand one’s private power by expanding others’? In this view, all the participants in an economy are simply using one another to expand their partial power.1 Even large corporations and their capital simply exist as sophisticated instruments for serving individual appetite.
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- Augustine and the Economy of SacrificeAncient and Modern Perspectives, pp. 27 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019