Economics as Religion : From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond /
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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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2014]
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Table des matières:
- 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.