Economics as Religion : : From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond / / Robert H. Nelson.

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• VerfasserIn: Nelson, Robert H.,
• MitwirkendeR: Stackhouse, Max L.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction: The Market Paradox --; Part ONE. THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD --; ONE Tenets of Economic Faith --; TWO A Secular Great Awakening --; Part TWO. THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSON'S ECONOMICS --; THREE The Market Mechanism as a Religious Statement --; FOUR Apostle of Scientific Management --; Part THREE. THE GODS OF CHICAGO --; Introduction --; FIVE Frank Knight and Original Sin --; SIX Knight Versus Friedman Versus Stigler --; SEVEN Chicago Versus the Ten Commandments --; Part FOUR. RELIGION AND THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS --; EIGHT A New Economic World --; NINE Efficient Religion --; Part FIVE. ECONOMICS AS RELIGION --; TEN God Bless the Market --; ELEVEN A Crisis of Progress --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271023724; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271023724?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert H. Nelson.

In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see ";theology"; as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down. It is a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief-what has been called ";vision.";