Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and BeyondPenn State Press, 2001 - 378 من الصفحات In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see &"theology&" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down. It is a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief&—what has been called &"vision.&" |
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The Market Paradox | 1 |
part ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF | 21 |
part TWO THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSONS ECONOMICS | 49 |
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part THREE THE GODS OF CHICAGO | 113 |
Frank Knight and Original | 119 |
SEVEN Chicago Versus the Ten Commandments | 166 |
part FOUR RELIGION AND THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS | 203 |
NINE | 230 |
part FIVE ECONOMICS AS RELIGION | 261 |
ELEVEN A Crisis of Progress | 303 |
Conclusion | 325 |
Notes | 339 |
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