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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.
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ISBN: 9780593317983 059331798X 9780593317990 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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"Where do our ideas about economics and economic policy come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists and many ordinary citizens too, is a form of religion. It turns out that there is something to the idea: not in the way the critics mean, but in a deeper, more historically grounded sense. Contrary to the conventional historical view of economics as entirely a secular product of the Enlightenment, religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset. Benjamin M. Friedman demonstrates that the foundational transition in thinking about what we now call economics, beginning in the eighteenth century, was decisively shaped by the hotly contended lines of religious thought within the English-speaking Protestant world. Beliefs about God-given human character, about our destiny after this life, and about the purpose of our existence, were all under challenge in the world in which Adam Smith and his contemporaries lived. Those debates explain the puzzling behavior so many of our fellow citizens whose views about economic policies, and whose voting behavior too, seems sharply at odds with what would be to their own economic benefit. Understanding the origins of the relationship between religious thinking and economic thinking, together with its ongoing consequences, provides insights into our current economic policy debates and ways to shape more functional policies for all citizens"--

The merchant in the confessional
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ISBN: 9004129049 9786610467129 1417545488 1280467126 9047401867 9781417545483 9789047401865 9789004129047 Year: 2003 Volume: 93 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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An exploration of the norms relating to trade and price expressed in handbooks designed for the education of confessors or as aids in the confessional. The author traces the development of such norms, and some 90 penitential handbooks are analyzed, with biographical sketches of the authors.

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