that, rather than simply being for or against globalization, the church catholic should be about knowing how to be global and how to be local. Finally, in the fourth chapter, I show that life in Christ refuses to accept scarcity as a given. Taken as a whole, this book attempts to sketch out a view of everyday economic life with the use of Christian resources. I examine some pathologies of desire in contemporary “free-market economies,” and display a positive vision of how the dynamics of desire in