03985nam 2200721Ia 450 991045876280332120200520144314.01-282-72322-797866127232233-11-024633-310.1515/9783110246339(CKB)2670000000035790(EBL)570593(OCoLC)659500658(SSID)ssj0000441676(PQKBManifestationID)11313687(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000441676(PQKBWorkID)10406918(PQKB)10959883(MiAaPQ)EBC570593(DE-B1597)113707(OCoLC)680620416(OCoLC)840446596(DE-B1597)9783110246339(Au-PeEL)EBL570593(CaPaEBR)ebr10408328(CaONFJC)MIL272322(EXLCZ)99267000000003579020100526d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrReligion, economy, and cooperation[electronic resource] /[edited by] Ilkka PyysiäinenBerlin ;New York De Gruyterc20101 online resource (250 p.)Religion and reason,0080-0848 ;v. 49Description based upon print version of record.3-11-024632-5 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 -- BackmatterWhy 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.Religion and reason ;49.EconomicsReligious aspectsEconomicsMoral and ethical aspectsCooperationReligious aspectsCooperationMoral and ethical aspectsElectronic books.EconomicsReligious aspects.EconomicsMoral and ethical aspects.CooperationReligious aspects.CooperationMoral and ethical aspects.201/.633BE 2260rvkPyysiäinen Ilkka454240MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458762803321Religion, economy, and cooperation2448885UNINA