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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert H Nelson |
| ISBN: | 0271020954 9780271020952 0271020962 9780271020969 |
| OCLC Number: | 45243319 |
| Description: | xxvi, 378 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The market paradox -- pt. 1. The laws of economics as the new word of God. Tenets of economic faith -- A secular Great Awakening -- pt. 2. Theological messages of Samuelson's Economics. The market mechanism as a religious statement -- Apostle of scientific management -- pt. 3. The gods of Chicago. Frank Knight and original sin -- Knight versus Friedman versus Stigler -- Chicago versus the Ten Commandments -- pt. 4. Religion and the new institutional economics. A new economic world -- Efficient religion -- pt. 5. Economics as religion. God bless the market -- A crisis of progress. |
| Responsibility: | Robert H. Nelson ; foreword by Max Stackhouse. |
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