Economics as religion : from Samuelson to Chicago and beyond /

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Robert Nelson's Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1944- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stackhouse, Max L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Economics > Philosophy.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Religion > Economic aspects.
Économie politique > Philosophie.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Religion > Aspect économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Economics > Philosophy
Religion > Economic aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The market paradox
  • pt. 1. The laws of economics as the new word of God. Tenets of economic faith
  • A secular Great Awakening
  • pt. 2. Theological messages of Samuelson's Economics. The market mechanism as a religious statement
  • Apostle of scientific management
  • pt. 3. The gods of Chicago. Frank Knight and original sin
  • Knight versus Friedman versus Stigler
  • Chicago versus the Ten Commandments
  • pt. 4. Religion and the new institutional economics. A new economic world
  • Efficient religion
  • pt. 5. Economics as religion. God bless the market
  • A crisis of progress
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue to the revised edition.

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