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



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Titolo: Religion, economy, and cooperation [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Ilkka Pyysiäinen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina: 201/.633
Soggetto topico: Economics - Religious aspects
Economics - Moral and ethical aspects
Cooperation - Religious aspects
Cooperation - Moral and ethical aspects
Soggetto non controllato: Economics
Evolution of Cooperation
Rational Choice Theory
Religion
Theology
Classificazione: BE 2260
Altri autori: PyysiäinenIlkka  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Religion, economy, and cooperation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-72322-7
9786612723223
3-11-024633-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784911803321
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Serie: Religion and reason ; ; 49.