Driven by Hope: Economics and Theology in Dialogue

Driven by Hope focuses on the central human experience of hope.

In particular, it seeks to further a dialogue on this theme between

theology and economics - but it also contains input from philosophy and

psychology. The volume is the result of an international conference on

the theme. The first chapter describes hope as a phenomenon with seven

dimensions - it also introduces the Hopebarometer 1.0, a psychometric

instrument to measure these dimensions. The other thirteen chapters of

the book are grouped in three parts. The first part, “Economic

Perspectives’, focuses on the question how the study of hope can be

appropriated more fully in the discipline of economics. The second part,

"Theological Perspectives’, investigates hope from a theological point

of view, and seeks to integrate this with an economic understanding of

hope. The third and last part, "Case Studies’, focuses on the role of

hope in specific practices.