Contents, Volume 14 #5

November/December 1996

Dossier

Economic Alternatives

Can ideas like social
investment, cooperatives,
barter and fair taxes
make a difference?

Leader
How do values and ethical considerations factor into the corporate boardroom's number-crunching? Tim Draimin (p. 2)

An Economy of Care: Two Views

We Need a Fruit Tree, Not a Tunnel. Bob Goudzwaard (p. 6)

Let's Not Overthrow the Market Economy. David Olive (p. 8)

Corporate Rule: Babylon of Our Time
Can prophetic and apocalyptic Bible texts referring to Babylon help us understand our own situation? Kevin Arsenault (p. 10)

Life and Taxes
Taxes should be thought of not as a burden or a restriction on our freedom but as a way of serving our best aspirations. An interview with Neil Brooks by Judy MacDonald (p. 12) Non-table version here.

Three Economic Alternatives in Action

Have Ethical Investors Lost Their Bearings? Eugene Ellmen (p. 14)

Conformity to the Highest Ideal of Excellence. Dee Kramer (p. 16)

Antidote to Cutbacks and Forced Isolation. Elizabeth Jackson (p. 18)

Shakespeare's Plea for Human Values
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare created a Jewish villain to criticize Christians' embrace of the new commercial society. Rabbi Herbert Bronstein (p. 19)

Churches Came to Terms with Moneylending. Curtis Fahey (p. 21)

Don José Maria Arrizmendi-Arrieta
By acting in the world he had, not an ideal or fantasized one, the pastor of Mondragon effected change. Stephanie Vincec CSJ and Fr. Greg MacLeod (p. 23)

Film

Movies Are Beginning to Breathe Again
After years of deconstructionist closure, the 1996 Cannes festival raised the possibility of postmodernism not as death but as new life. Marc Gervais SJ (p. 24)

Books

Bookshelf Gleanings
A theological defence of capitalism and a journey along the path of nonviolence. (p. 27)

Features

Colloquy
Heaven and my father's secret drawer. Lou Volpentesta (p. 4)

Points
Witchcraft and arsenic, the whore's miscarriage and ethnic losers. (p. 5) Non-table version here.

Testament
Commitment, desire and physical love. Isidore H. Gorski (p. 26)

Compass Cryptic by Margaret Visser
Mars bars with egg, ghastly curry and a receptacle for honey. (p. 29)

Disputatio
Communication is the bread that makes us human. Rev. Gary Boratto (p. 30)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
I can't seem to live in an airport. (p. 31)