Reconstructing an Ethics of Credit in an Age of Neoliberalism

One of the most formidable socio-economic challenges which Christian communities are facing today is the growing dominance of neoliberalism. From wheat fields in Brazil to Wall Street in New York City, neoliberalism is marching on everywhere with its massive credit (or credit money). The purpose of this paper is to address a key structural injustice of neoliberalism-the deepening colonization of "social capital" by "financial capital." Since the 1980s, a new economic process known as "financialization" has structurally changed the global economic system entailing an extreme income and wealth gap between the haves and the have nots. It has also rendered a countless number of ordinary people vulnerable to various types of debt entrapment while destroying the environment on a global scale. Behind all these forms of social and natural disintegration lies a crucial neoliberal apparatus fueled by credit. This paper engages in such problems by attempting to reconnect the lost link between social capital and financial capital. In doing so, it first analyzes the genealogical origin of the separation between financial capital and social capital. The author then comes up with ethical principles to re-anchor financial capital in social capital through a critical and interdisciplinary exploration

Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Financial capital · Financialization · Human capital · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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