Economics as Religion
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Economics as Religion

From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Economics as Religion

From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: The Market Paradox
  7. 1 Tenets of Economic Faith
  8. 2 A Secular Great Awakening
  9. 3 The Market Mechanism as a Religious Statement
  10. 4 Apostle of Scientific Management
  11. 5 Frank Knight and Original Sin
  12. 6 Knight Versus Friedman Versus Stigler
  13. 7 Chicago Versus the Ten Commandments
  14. 8 A New Economic World
  15. 9 Efficient Religion
  16. 10 God Bless the Market
  17. 11 A Crisis of Progress
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Index