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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799936803321

Titolo

Markets, morals & religion / / Jonathan B. Imber, editor ; with a preface by Peter L. Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2008

ISBN

1-351-50679-X

1-351-50680-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Disciplina

174

Soggetti

Capitalism - Moral and ethical aspects

Free enterprise - Moral and ethical aspects

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Capitalism - Religious aspects

Free enterprise - Religious aspects

Economics - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Markets and morals. Three hundred years of positive moral effects of the market / Jerry Z. Muller -- The moral consequences of economic growth / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Moral values and market attitudes / Wayne Baker and Melissa Forbes -- State-manipulated markets and morals: Degussa in the Third Reich / Peter Hayes -- The moral implications of preference change / David George -- Market failure for the treatment of animals / Tyler Cowen -- Western intellectuals and commercial society / Alan Kahan -- The market and the pursuit of happiness / Darrin M. McMahon -- Markets and religion. Welfare, property and the divine image in Jewish law and thought / Joseph Isaac Lifshitz -- Capitalism in religious Zionist theory / Alan Mittleman -- Ambivalent embrace: Islamic economics and global capitalism / Robert W. Hefner -- Pentecostalism and economic development / Robert D. Woodberry -- Counting one's blessings: the economic values of Russian Orthodox Christians / Christopher Marsh -- The consumer market and the origins of the African American holiness movement /



John M. Giggie -- The political economy of forgiveness / Peter Boettke and Christopher J. Coyne -- Mitch Kapor and the roots of an enlightened economics / Christal Whelan -- Withing and beyong the market: religions, moralities, and philanthropies in Chinese societies / Robert P. Weller.