Drawing upon the central tenets of the Catholic faith and contemporary Catholic teaching, Haas has fashioned a new vision of economic life. It's an outlook that is at once eminently practical and deeply spiritual. Structured around the themes of generosity, bountifulness and freedom, this book presents new arguments why the drive toward prosperity should be affirmed and blessed.

PART I: BEYOND SELF-INTEREST: A NEW MODEL OF ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. Productivity: the search for surplus value -- A Trinitarian view of prosperity -- Mutuality in marriage and in the marketplace -- Pursuing prosperity in a spirit of poverty; PART II: FREEDOM: THE PRE-REQUISITE FOR PRODUCTIVITY. Fear, sin and self-destruction -- Competition: outdoing one another in honor -- Spending freedom in commitment; PART III: THE VALUE ADDED IS LOVE: PRACTICAL AND PRAYERFUL WAYS TO ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY. Becoming productive: responsibility of the individual -- Inspiring productivity: the management challenge -- Securing productivity: the role of government -- Sanctifying productivity: a spirituality for economic life -- Afterword: a theology of hustle.