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Henry George, Biblical Morality and Economic Ethics: Some Conclusions from a Lifetime's Study of the Relation Between Ethics and Economics *
Author(s) -
Bkadley Preston
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1980.tb01271.x
Subject(s) - creed , george (robot) , morality , relation (database) , capitalism , christianity , the good life , environmental ethics , religious studies , philosophy , statement (logic) , law , sociology , theology , history , political science , art history , epistemology , politics , database , computer science
A bstract . The writer [Dr. Preston Bradley ] discovered Henry George through reading one of his great literary followers, Leo Tolstoy ; later the author came to know intimately many prominent Single Taxers. The experiences convinced him that the basic economic ideas of George cannot be successfully challenged. As a religious leader, the writer believes that religion should never and cannot ever be separated from life. So he believes that the application of ethics to economic life is as religious as the statement of Christianity's oldest and most sacred creed. George formulated a reformed system for capitalism based on biblical morality , the highest ethical standards of the modern age and its most exalted insights. We live in an age of con‐tinuing economic crisis. We must infuse our moral and religious prin‐ciples into our economic system or we are lost. This is a responsi‐bility bequeathed us hy the wisest and best thinkers of the past, among the greatest of whom was Henry George.