New version now available! Good Business: Catholic Social Teaching at Work in the Marketplace Thomas O'Brien, Elizabeth W. Collier, and Patrick Flanagan Doing good business requires a firm moral compass for navigating everyday decisions with significant social, political, and economic impact. Good Business: Catholic Social Teaching at Work in the Marketplace examines eight themes of Catholic Social Teaching-- human dignity, common good, stewardship, option for the poor, economic justice, subsidiarity, solidarity, and rights and responsibilities-- and how they apply to contemporary business practices and critical issues in the global economy. With positive case studies and thoughtful discussion questions, Good Business guides learners toward practical application of the concepts in the modern business world. Information for website for 7059, Good Business O'Brien, Collier, and Flanagan's Good Business strikingly illustrates how Catholic social teaching challenges the overemphasis on individualism and profit for a few in contemporary American capitalism. In eight chapters the book develops and applies a different theme of Catholic social teaching to the structure of economic life--human dignity, common good, stewardship, option for the poor, economic justice, subsidiarity, solidarity, and rights and responsibilities. The authors admirably bring together theory and practice by relating in each chapter a different approach to economic enterprises illustrating the incorporation of the theme developed in that chapter. Charles E. Curran Southern Methodist University In an era when so much of business ethics treats only issues within the firm, O'Brien, Collier, and Flanagan's Good Business: Catholic Social Teaching at Work in the Marketplace employs Scripture, tradition, and contemporary Catholic social thought to provide a lively and more expansive vision of what businesses are called to be. An excellent resource for the classroom. Daniel Finn St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota The abstract reflections of theologians and philosophers have often had little impact on the work of practicing business managers. [O'Brien, Collier, and Flanagan's] Good Business, seeks to bridge that gap and is a welcome addition to the project of applying the principles of the Catholic social teaching to the challenges of business. The authors provide a useful summary of basic concepts (such as human dignity, the common good, justice, subsidiarity, and solidarity) and survey some of the issues that surround them. But beyond that they do a rare thing, which is to make a serious and determined attempt to explain how these basic concepts might play out in the practical management of business enterprises. They provide thoughtful reflection illustrated by a set of case studies that helps to ground theory in application. The result is a thought-provoking volume for anyone interested in bringing the Catholic social tradition to the world of business. Robert G Kennedy University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul, MN O'Brien, Collier, and Flanagan's Good Business strikingly illustrates how Catholic social teaching challenges the overemphasis on individualism and profit for a few in contemporary American capitalism. In eight chapters the book develops and applies a different theme of Catholic social teaching to the structure of economic life--human dignity, common good, stewardship, option for the poor, economic justice, subsidiarity, solidarity, and rights and responsibilities. The authors admirably bring together theory and practice by relating in each chapter a different approach to economic enterprises illustrating the incorporation of the theme developed in that chapter. Charles E. Curran Southern Methodist University Thomas O'Brien is associate professor of religious studies at DePaul University, Chicago. Elizabeth W. Collier is associate professor of business ethics at Dominican University, River Forest, Ill. Patrick Flanagan is assistant professor in the department of theology and religious studies at St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y.