LEADER 03554nam 2200553 450 001 9910815357303321 005 20230808201834.0 010 $a0-19-069475-0 010 $a0-19-069464-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000001133096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4828903 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001133096 100 $a20170407h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFaithonomics $ereligion and the free market /$fTorkel Brekke 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (310 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-062769-7 327 $aIntroduction: An economic take on religion -- Part 1. The market for religion. Should priests be bribed into laziness? -- Beer, haircuts and religious services -- Priests and fighter pilots -- Faith as social glue: the history of a bad idea -- Part 2. History--religious markets in other times and places. Religious markets in Islam -- Religious markets in Hinduism -- Religious markets in Buddhism -- Religious markets in medieval Catholicism -- Part 3. The present--seven sins of government intervention. Crowding out: when government kills initiative -- Rent-seeking: religions jockeying for privilege -- Monopoly: Nordic state churches and communist repression -- Discrimination: women, gay people and God -- Persecution: states, religions and violence -- Reification: how states fix religions in space and time -- Imitation: why do atheists and Buddhists behave like Christians? 330 $a"Does anyone have a monopoly on God? Can religion be bought or sold? Why do we pay priests? How do we limit religious conflicts? And should states get involved in matters of faith? "Faithonomics" shows that religion should be analyzed as a market similar to those for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. It is about religion today, but Brekke shows us that there have always been religious markets, all over the world, regulated to a greater or lesser degree. He argues that state "control" over religious markets is often the cause of unforeseen and negative consequences. Many of today's problems like religious terrorism or rent-seeking by religious political parties, are easier to understand if we think like economists. Religious markets work best when they are relatively free, and religious organizations should be left to sell their products without unnecessary restrictions. We have no good reason to grant any one of them special privileges, political or financial."--book jacket front flap. 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aEconomics$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aEconomics$xPhilosophy 606 $aEconomics$xReligious aspects 606 $aFree enterprise$xReligious aspects 606 $aPurchasing power$xReligious aspects 606 $aBusiness$xReligious aspects 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 0$aEconomics$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aEconomics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEconomics$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aFree enterprise$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aPurchasing power$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aBusiness$xReligious aspects. 676 $a322.1 700 $aBrekke$b Torkel$0853973 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815357303321 996 $aFaithonomics$93967318 997 $aUNINA