Faithonomics : religion and the free market /

"Does anyone have a monopoly on God? Can religion be bought or sold? Why do we pay priests? How do we limit religious conflicts? And should states get involved in matters of faith? "Faithonomics" shows that religion should be analyzed as a market similar to those for other goods and s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brekke, Torkel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2016.
Temas:
Religion and politics.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Economics > Philosophy.
Economics > Religious aspects.
Free enterprise > Religious aspects.
Purchasing power > Religious aspects.
Business > Religious aspects.
Religion et politique.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Économie politique > Philosophie.
Économie politique > Aspect religieux.
Pouvoir d'achat > Aspect religieux.
Affaires > Aspect religieux.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Business > Religious aspects
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Economics > Philosophy
Economics > Religious aspects
Free enterprise > Religious aspects
Religion and politics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: An economic take on religion
  • Part 1. The market for religion. Should priests be bribed into laziness?
  • Beer, haircuts and religious services
  • Priests and fighter pilots
  • Faith as social glue: the history of a bad idea
  • Part 2. History
  • religious markets in other times and places. Religious markets in Islam
  • Religious markets in Hinduism
  • Religious markets in Buddhism
  • Religious markets in medieval Catholicism
  • Part 3. The present
  • seven sins of government intervention. Crowding out: when government kills initiative
  • Rent-seeking: religions jockeying for privilege
  • Monopoly: Nordic state churches and communist repression
  • Discrimination: women, gay people and God
  • Persecution: states, religions and violence
  • Reification: how states fix religions in space and time
  • Imitation: why do atheists and Buddhists behave like Christians?

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