Handbook of Economics and Ethics
Edited by Jan Peil and Irene van Staveren
- Handbook of Economics and Ethics
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Altruism
- Chapter 2: Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter 3: Aristotle
- Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham
- Chapter 5: Buddhist Economics
- Chapter 6: Capability Approach
- Chapter 7: Catholic Social Thought
- Chapter 8: Code of Ethics for Economists
- Chapter 9: Consumerism
- Chapter 10: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 11: Deontology
- Chapter 12: Dignity
- Chapter 13: Discrimination
- Chapter 14: Economic Anthropology
- Chapter 15: Efficiency
- Chapter 16: Egoism
- Chapter 17: Epistemology
- Chapter 18: Equity
- Chapter 19: Ethics of Care
- Chapter 20: Fact/Value Dichotomy
- Chapter 21: Fairness
- Chapter 22: Feminism
- Chapter 23: Freedom
- Chapter 24: Game Theory
- Chapter 25: Globalization
- Chapter 26: Global Financial Markets
- Chapter 27: Happiness
- Chapter 28: Hedonism
- Chapter 29: Hinduism
- Chapter 30: Homo Economicus
- Chapter 31: Human Development
- Chapter 32: Humanism
- Chapter 33: Identity
- Chapter 34: Income Distribution
- Chapter 35: Individualism
- Chapter 36: Inequality
- Chapter 37: Institutions
- Chapter 38: Islam
- Chapter 39: Justice
- Chapter 40: Immanuel Kant
- Chapter 41: Labour Standards
- Chapter 42: Market
- Chapter 43: Karl Marx
- Chapter 44: Minimum Wages
- Chapter 45: Needs and Agency
- Chapter 46: Needs and Well-being
- Chapter 47: Pluralism
- Chapter 48: Positive-Normative Distinction in British History of Economic Thought
- Chapter 49: Positive versus Normative Economics
- Chapter 50: Postmodernism
- Chapter 51: Poverty
- Chapter 52: Prices
- Chapter 53: Protestant Ethics
- Chapter 54: Rationality
- Chapter 55: John Rawls
- Chapter 56: Realism
- Chapter 57: Religion
- Chapter 58: Rhetoric
- Chapter 59: Rights
- Chapter 60: Joan Robinson
- Chapter 61: Scarcity
- Chapter 62: Self-interest
- Chapter 63: Amartya Sen
- Chapter 64: Sin
- Chapter 65: Adam Smith
- Chapter 66: Social Capital
- Chapter 67: Social Economics
- Chapter 68: Solidarity
- Chapter 69: Sustainability
- Chapter 70: Teaching Economics
- Chapter 71: Trust
- Chapter 72: Utilitarianism
- Chapter 73: Thorstein Veblen
- Chapter 74: Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 75: Max Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic
- Index
Chapter 57: Religion
Robert H. Nelson
Handbook Chapter
- Published in print:
- 30 Jun 2009
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- Handbook Chapter
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Robert H. Nelson After long neglect, the subject of religion has received growing attention in the economics profession over the past two decades. One of the reasons is that it has proven difficult to explain the levels of economic development of many nations around the world without reference to a national culture, and many of these cultures have been significantly influenced by religion. Contrary to a wide expectation in the modern era that the role of religion would gradually diminish, and perhaps eventually disappear, in many parts of the world various forms of religious fundamentalism have instead been growing, both in numbers of followers and in political and economic impact. In economic terms, individual consumers can be said to demand a variety of forms of religious activity as part of their maximization of utility, and producers of religion have emerged to supply religious services in an overall market for religion. There is also increasing understanding that secular religions, such as Marxism and the American progressive ‘gospel of efficiency’, incorporate economic arguments while borrowing heavily from traditional Christian sources, which is one of the reasons for their success. In the intellectual sphere in general, there has been a blurring of the lines between secular religion and traditional religion, reflecting that the category of religion can legitimately include fundamental belief systems that may or may not include a God in the hereafter. A religion of economics may be one in that category. The subject of religion and economics is large and diverse....
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- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Altruism
- Chapter 2: Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter 3: Aristotle
- Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham
- Chapter 5: Buddhist Economics
- Chapter 6: Capability Approach
- Chapter 7: Catholic Social Thought
- Chapter 8: Code of Ethics for Economists
- Chapter 9: Consumerism
- Chapter 10: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 11: Deontology
- Chapter 12: Dignity
- Chapter 13: Discrimination
- Chapter 14: Economic Anthropology
- Chapter 15: Efficiency
- Chapter 16: Egoism
- Chapter 17: Epistemology
- Chapter 18: Equity
- Chapter 19: Ethics of Care
- Chapter 20: Fact/Value Dichotomy
- Chapter 21: Fairness
- Chapter 22: Feminism
- Chapter 23: Freedom
- Chapter 24: Game Theory
- Chapter 25: Globalization
- Chapter 26: Global Financial Markets
- Chapter 27: Happiness
- Chapter 28: Hedonism
- Chapter 29: Hinduism
- Chapter 30: Homo Economicus
- Chapter 31: Human Development
- Chapter 32: Humanism
- Chapter 33: Identity
- Chapter 34: Income Distribution
- Chapter 35: Individualism
- Chapter 36: Inequality
- Chapter 37: Institutions
- Chapter 38: Islam
- Chapter 39: Justice
- Chapter 40: Immanuel Kant
- Chapter 41: Labour Standards
- Chapter 42: Market
- Chapter 43: Karl Marx
- Chapter 44: Minimum Wages
- Chapter 45: Needs and Agency
- Chapter 46: Needs and Well-being
- Chapter 47: Pluralism
- Chapter 48: Positive-Normative Distinction in British History of Economic Thought
- Chapter 49: Positive versus Normative Economics
- Chapter 50: Postmodernism
- Chapter 51: Poverty
- Chapter 52: Prices
- Chapter 53: Protestant Ethics
- Chapter 54: Rationality
- Chapter 55: John Rawls
- Chapter 56: Realism
- Chapter 57: Religion
- Chapter 58: Rhetoric
- Chapter 59: Rights
- Chapter 60: Joan Robinson
- Chapter 61: Scarcity
- Chapter 62: Self-interest
- Chapter 63: Amartya Sen
- Chapter 64: Sin
- Chapter 65: Adam Smith
- Chapter 66: Social Capital
- Chapter 67: Social Economics
- Chapter 68: Solidarity
- Chapter 69: Sustainability
- Chapter 70: Teaching Economics
- Chapter 71: Trust
- Chapter 72: Utilitarianism
- Chapter 73: Thorstein Veblen
- Chapter 74: Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 75: Max Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic
- Index