Economics as religion : from Samuelson to Chicago and beyond / Robert H. Nelson ; foreword by Max Stackhouse.

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Nelson, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1944-

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0271023724
9780271023724
9780271076218
0271076216

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330.1 21

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HB72 .N45 2001eb

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Contents:

Introduction: The market paradox -- pt. 1. The laws of economics as the new word of God. Tenets of economic faith -- A secular Great Awakening -- pt. 2. Theological messages of Samuelson's Economics. The market mechanism as a religious statement -- Apostle of scientific management -- pt. 3. The gods of Chicago. Frank Knight and original sin -- Knight versus Friedman versus Stigler -- Chicago versus the Ten Commandments -- pt. 4. Religion and the new institutional economics. A new economic world -- Efficient religion -- pt. 5. Economics as religion. God bless the market -- A crisis of progress.

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Summary: 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."

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.

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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."

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