Two Views Of Social Justice

With the global economy still reeling from persistent credit crises, recent years have brought the reality of human suffering to light in vivid ways and issues of social justice have assumed greater urgency in public discourse. Two long-standing schools of intellectual and moral tradition – Catholic Social Thought and the ideas propounded by the great 19^th-century social and economic thinker Henry George – share a central concern for social justice, but each brings a unique perspective to the discussion. This volume addresses eight social-justice topics of contemporary significance (natural law, human nature, nature of work, the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, causes of war, immigration, development and wealth, and neighbourhood revitalization – via essays from prominent Catholic and Georgist scholars.

Dr. Kenneth Lord serves as Associate Dean in the Kania School of Management and Professor of Management?and Marketing at The University of Scranton. He came to The University of Scranton in 2006 from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was director of graduate programs and professor of marketing.?Earlier in his career he held marketing faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Niagara University. Dr. Lord holds degrees in English, communication and marketing from the University of Utah and The Ohio State University.?His research in the area of consumer behavior has led to more than 80 articles and presentations in scholarly and trade journals and conferences, more than 1,000 citations in scholarly publications and textbooks, and his ranking among the world's top advertising scholars.