Introduction -- Colonial faith: work, wealth, and the wider welfare -- Acting for self's sake: the later colonial era -- Laissez-Faire for Americans -- Ethics better than the morals of hermits -- Religious socialism: the communal Moravians -- Abolition: human dignity as a boundary to markets -- Social Darwinists of different species -- New influences in economics -- The social gospel and Catholic thought around 1900 -- The 1920s and 1930s: depressed old values -- Too agnostic, too certain: welfare economics, Chicago economics -- Moralists of twentieth-century capitalism -- Unconventional alternatives to the conventional wisdom -- An ecumenical consensus on economic ethics -- Summary, assessments, and a projection. |