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.)

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.";

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- TEN God Bless the Market -- ELEVEN A Crisis of Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index