Douglas A Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas A Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inequality, Justice, and the Myth of Unsituated Market Exchange
This article examines inequality from a framework of justice that attends to the socially situated nature of market activity, including exchange. I argue that accounts of unsituated exchange—accounts of market exchange that abstract from social situations, such as philosopher Robert Nozick’s influential libertarian account of justice—overlook various factors that contribute to growing economic inequality in contemporary society. Analyses of marke…
Religion and the Workplace
Response by Douglas A. Hicks
Gender, Discrimination, and Capability
This essay critically examines economist and philosopher Amartya Sen’s writings as a potential resource in religious ethicists’ efforts to analyze discrimination against girls and women and to address their well‐being and agency. Delineating how Sen’s discussions of “missing women” and “gender and cooperative conflict” fit within his “capability approach” to economic and human development, the article explores how Sen’s methodology employs empiri…
Inequality and Christian Ethics
Inequality and Christian Ethics, first published in 2000, provides a moral and empirical analysis of contemporary social and economic inequality. Drawing on Christian social ethics, political philosophy, and development economics, the book seeks to create an interdisciplinary conversation that illuminates not only the contemporary realities and trends of inequality, but their moral significance as well. It is necessary to examine and understand i…
The inequality-adjusted human development index
The inequality-adjusted human development index
Inequality and Christian Ethics
Inequality and Christian Ethics, first published in 2000, provides a moral and empirical analysis of contemporary social and economic inequality. Drawing on Christian social ethics, political philosophy, and development economics, the book seeks to create an interdisciplinary conversation that illuminates not only the contemporary realities and trends of inequality, but their moral significance as well. It is necessary to examine and understand i…
Gender, Discrimination, and Capability
This essay critically examines economist and philosopher Amartya Sen’s writings as a potential resource in religious ethicists’ efforts to analyze discrimination against girls and women and to address their well‐being and agency. Delineating how Sen’s discussions of “missing women” and “gender and cooperative conflict” fit within his “capability approach” to economic and human development, the article explores how Sen’s methodology employs empiri…
Religion and the Workplace
Response by Douglas A. Hicks
Inequality, Justice, and the Myth of Unsituated Market Exchange
This article examines inequality from a framework of justice that attends to the socially situated nature of market activity, including exchange. I argue that accounts of unsituated exchange—accounts of market exchange that abstract from social situations, such as philosopher Robert Nozick’s influential libertarian account of justice—overlook various factors that contribute to growing economic inequality in contemporary society. Analyses of marke…
Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic inequality (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)