Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2019
If neither endless growth nor limitless survival provide adequate ideals for orienting economic life, what does? Endless growth fails to acknowledge the limits of desire imposed by the common good. Limitless survival fails to acknowledge the limits of corporate life directed toward its common good. Both are shadowed by sacrificial loss and death. And both reflect failures of acknowledgment. Reorienting economic life requires learning how to recognize the common good through the limits of our lives and desires. We make that acknowledgment through sacrifice. This chapter discusses how an economy might do so.
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