In the budding field of Christian business ethics, Durable Goods is the first book to:

• interpret biblical covenanting in light of the dynamics of business enterprise.

• to insist upon fairness as a corrective to the competing partial visions of managerial ideology and radical criticism.

• to develop the formal architecture of a theory, as a means of achieving such fairness.

• develop a detailed explanation of the nature and costs of genuine cooperation.