Economics as Religion : : From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond / / Robert H. Nelson.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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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 Scientifi c Management
- part THREE THE GODS OF CHICAGO
- 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
- Epilogue to the Revised Edition
- Notes
- Index