| Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy Volume 40 Contributor(s): Bateman, Bradley (Editor), Banzhaf, H. Spencer (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822367025 ISBN-13: 9780822367024 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Series: History of Political Economy: Annual Supplement |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy" considers the historical and current relationship between religious and economic schools of thought. The volume explores the integration of theology and economics that was prevalent before the twentieth century, the rise of secular neoclassical economic models in the middle of that century, and the recent trend toward examining economic behavior through the prism of religious belief. Two of the essays examine the antagonism between Christianity and utilitarianism in postrevolutionary French economics and the rising influence of the materialism of the market vis- -vis the declining authority of the Roman Catholic Church in eighteenth-century Europe. Other topics explored include the work of the great American neoclassicist Frank Knight, the combination of utility analysis and Christian principles among the "clerical economists" in America, and the effect of a crisis of personal faith on the theories of the English philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick. |