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UNINA9910480716803321 |
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Nelson Robert H (Robert Henry), <1944-> |
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Economics as religion : from Samuelson to Chicago and beyond / / Robert H. Nelson ; foreword by Max Stackhouse |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2014 |
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©2001 |
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0-271-07220-2 |
0-271-06619-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (437 p.) |
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Economics - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""COVER Front""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword (Max L. Stackhouse)""; ""Preface""; ""Notes to Preface""; ""Introduction: The Market Paradox""; ""Notes to Introduction""; ""PART I: The Laws of Economics as the New Word of God""; ""Chapter 1: Tenets of Economic Faith""; ""Notes to Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2: A Secular Great Awakening""; ""Notes to Chapter 2""; ""PART II: Theological Messages of Samuelson's Economics""; ""Notes to Part II""; ""Chapter 3: The Market Mechanism as a Religious Statement""; ""Notes to Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4: Apostle of Scientific Management"" |
""Notes to Chapter 4""""PART III: The Gods of Chicago""; ""Notes to Part III""; ""Chapter 5: Frank Knight and Original Sin""; ""Notes to Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6: Knight Versus Friedman Versus Stigler""; ""Notes to Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7: Chicago Versus the Ten Commandments""; ""Notes to Chapter 7""; ""PART IV: Religion and the New Institutional Economics""; ""Notes to Part IV""; ""Chapter 8: A New Economic World""; ""Notes to Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9: Efficient Religion""; ""Notes to Chapter 9""; ""PART V: Economics as Religion""; ""Notes to Part V""; ""Chapter 10: God Bless the Market"" |
""Notes to Chapter 10""""Chapter 11: A Crisis of Progress""; ""Notes to Chapter 11""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes to Conclusion""; ""Epilogue to the |
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Revised Edition""; ""Notes to Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""COVER Back"" |
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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 Greece through the traditions that Nelson identifies as “Protestant” and “Roman,” and on into modern economic forms such as Marxism and capitalism, as well as environmentalism. Nelson argues that economics can be a genuine form of religion and that it should inform our understanding of the religious developments of our times. This edition of Economics as Religion situates the influence of his work in the scholarly economic and theological conversations of today and reflects on the state of the economics profession and the potential implications for theology, economics, and other social sciences. |
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UNINA9910966263403321 |
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Autore |
Clotfelter Charles T. |
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Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-107-22098-X |
1-139-06380-4 |
1-283-11271-X |
1-139-07618-3 |
9786613112712 |
1-139-08301-5 |
1-139-07847-X |
1-139-08074-1 |
0-511-97690-9 |
1-139-07046-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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College sports - United States |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Commercial sports as a university function. Strange bedfellows -- Priorities -- The bigness of "big time" -- The uses of big-time college sports. Consumer good, mass obsession -- Commercial enterprise -- Institution builder -- Beacon for campus culture -- Reckoning. Ends and means -- Prospects for reform. |
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For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic budgets have ballooned. Drawing on new research findings, this book takes a fresh look at the role of commercial sports in American universities. It shows that, rather than being the inconsequential student activity that universities often imply that it is, big-time sport has become a core function of the universities that engage in it. For this reason, the book takes this function seriously and presents evidence necessary for a constructive perspective about its value. Although big-time sport surely creates worrying conflicts in values, it also brings with it some surprising positive consequences. |
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