Abstract
Every Christian should read this book. It shows how economic theories guide governments. The author says in the Preface that the subtitle might have been: "The struggle for a minority opinion." Simons mentions four reasons supporting the need for a minority opinion. First: "The radical need to move from viewing social relationships as embedded in an existing economy, to holding economic systems accountable to already existing sets of human relationships and communities." Second: "An opportunity to place the anthropologies assumed by economists from both capitalist and socialist backgrounds in critical dialogue with a more sensitive communitarian vision of the human person derived from key Christian doctrinal perspectives." Third: "The need for the voice of Christian churches on economic issues to become even more public and credible." Fourth: "To suggest strategies to the Church for alternative ways of communicating and witnessing the relevance of its wisdom in the realm of economic organization."