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Religion, Economy, and Cooperation.

This volume addresses the issue of religion and economy in the evolution of human cooperation. Both religious practices and economic behaviour create and sustain intra-group cooperation by providing people with common goals and values. Even if individuals are selfish maximizers of utility, in the en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pyysiinen, Ilkka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Religion and Reason
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter; Contents; Servants of Two Masters: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation; Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience; Rational Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality; Playing against Superior Beings in Religion, Technology and Economy; Durkheim and Psychology; Religion and the Emergence of the Rule of Law; Max Weber Revisited; The Market, God, and the Ascetic Life; Backmatter.