1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005563210203316

Autore

CAVALLI, Luciano

Titolo

Carisma : la qualità straordinaria del leader / Luciano Cavalli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma [etc.] : Laterza, 1995

Descrizione fisica

102 p. ; 17 cm

Collana

Il  nocciolo. - Roma ; 15

Disciplina

303.34

Soggetti

Capi <sociologia>

Collocazione

300 303.34 CAV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784911803321

Titolo

Religion, economy, and cooperation [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-282-72322-7

9786612723223

3-11-024633-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Religion and reason, , 0080-0848 ; ; v. 49

Classificazione

BE 2260

Altri autori (Persone)

PyysiäinenIlkka

Disciplina

201/.633

Soggetti

Economics - Religious aspects

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Cooperation - Religious aspects

Cooperation - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Servants of Two Masters: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation -- Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience -- Rational Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality -- Playing against Superior Beings in Religion, Technology and Economy -- Durkheim and Psychology -- Religion and the Emergence of the Rule of Law† -- Max Weber Revisited -- The Market, God, and the Ascetic Life -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Why give money to beggars? Why make sacrifices to help others? The current volume targets such questions with the tools of neoclassical and behavioural economics, philosophy, and sociology of religion. Both religion and economics are analyzed as social institutions that support human intra-group cooperation. Even if individuals are rational maximizers of personal utility, they yet must take into account the reciprocal nature of human relationships. It is better to be part of a cooperative group and make some personal sacrifices because, in the end, everybody benefits from this. Sometimes the metaphor of an invisible hand is used to describe the fact that economic exchange seems to follow some rules that guarantee the best possible result for everyone. In religion, it is of course the hand of God that guides the world. In both cases, individuals are in a way playing against a superior being that always seems to win. In this volume, some of the cognitive mechanisms and cultural selective forces behind this are examined by specialists in different fields of science. The first contributions analyze theoretical and methodological issues; in later chapters, developments in the European history are explored from the perspectives of sociology and economic theory.