Religion In A Free Market

Author : Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar
Publisher : Paramount Market Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 097669736X

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Religion in a Free Market by Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar Pdf

From the pulpits to the op-ed pages, several messages about religion in the U.S. are heard again and again: It's said that Americans are flocking to churches and other religious institutions in greater numbers than ever before, that non-Christian faiths are growing rapidly, and that a new religious fervor among the young is filling up the pews. All of these frequently heard messages are incorrect, according to this book. The book, by professors Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., is based on a major national survey which they conducted. The U.S. Census is prohibited from asking questions about religion, so this survey, the American Religious Identification Survey, contains the most complete and reliable source of data on religion in America today. This book argues that religion in America can best be understood as a product on offer in the marketplace of ideas. It says that "religious ferment in America is as strong as it has ever been, so whatever you learned about religion in the U.S. a generation ago is out of date."

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674973152

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The Market as God by Harvey Cox Pdf

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox’s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world’s problems—widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty—are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.

Author : Torkel Brekke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190627690

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Faithonomics by Torkel Brekke Pdf

"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.

Author : Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815796282

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Is the Market Moral? by Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn Pdf

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions—equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism. Their arguments are grounded in both economic sophistication and religious commitment. Rebecca Blank is an economist by training and describes herself as "culturally Protestant in the habits of mind and heart." She has also chaired the committee that wrote the statement on Christian faith and economic life adopted by the United Church of Christ. Addressing market failure, for her, requires that sometimes "freedom to choose" give way to other human values. William McGurn, a journalist and a Roman Catholic, uses his expertise in economics to reflect on the teachings of the church concerning the morality of the market. For McGurn, humans reach their fullest potential when they are free from the constraints of others. He writes that "our quarrel is not so much with Adam Smith or Milton Friedman but with the Providence that so clearly designed man to be his most prosperous at his most free." This book grapples with the new imperatives of a global economy while working in the classic tradition of political economy which always treated seriously the questions of morality, justice, productivity, and freedom.

Author : R. H. Tawney
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446549124

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Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney Pdf

One of the great classics of the 20th century, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Robert Sirico
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596988118

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Defending the Free Market by Robert Sirico Pdf

Thirty years ago, the economic system of the Soviet empire—socialism—seemed definitively discredited. Today, the most popular figures in the Democratic Party embrace it, while the shapers of public opinion treat capitalism as morally indefensible. Is there a moral case for capitalism? Consumerism is an appalling spectacle. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market? Robert Sirico, a onetime leftist, shows how a free economy—including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by the parties to a transaction—is the best way to meet society’s material needs. In fact, the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity has ever rescued from want. But efficiency isn’t its only virtue. Economic freedom is indispensable for the other freedoms we prize. And it’s not true that it makes things more important than people—just the reverse. Only if we have economic rights can we protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—including our consciences. Defending the Free Market is a powerful vindication of capitalism and a timely warning for a generation flirting with disaster.

Author : Vigo Auguste Demant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UOM:39015001663858

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Religion and the Decline of Capitalism by Vigo Auguste Demant Pdf

Author : Daromir Rudnyckyj,Filippo Osella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186057

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Religion and the Morality of the Market by Daromir Rudnyckyj,Filippo Osella Pdf

This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.

Author : Thomas E. Woods
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739188019

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The Church and the Market by Thomas E. Woods Pdf

The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it makes a particular point of noting the moral arguments of the market economy and that Catholics are of course perfectly at liberty to support it, its audience is much broader than Catholics alone. Readers of all religious traditions and none at all have praised The Church and the Market, first-place winner in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards, as one of the most compelling and persuasive defenses of capitalism against its critics ever written.

Author : Kathleen Flake,Nathan Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion and law
ISBN : 1032313463

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Democracy, Religion, and Commerce by Kathleen Flake,Nathan Oman Pdf

"This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market. In so doing, it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile, with religious freedom functioning like market freedom, 'free market religion' has achieved the status of general knowledge about the nature of religion as either good or bad. It legislates good religion as that which operates according to free market principles: it is private, with no formal relationship to government; and personal: a matter of belief and conscience. As naturalized elements of historically contingent and discursively maintained beliefs about religion, these criteria have ethical and regulatory force. Thus, in culture and law, the effect of the metaphor has become instrumental, not merely descriptive. This volume seeks to productively complicate and invite further analysis of this easy conflation of democracy, religion and the market. It invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated in and illuminate the place of religion in public life. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of law and religion, ethics and economics"--

Author : Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815796282

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Is the Market Moral? by Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn Pdf

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions—equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism. Their arguments are grounded in both economic sophistication and religious commitment. Rebecca Blank is an economist by training and describes herself as "culturally Protestant in the habits of mind and heart." She has also chaired the committee that wrote the statement on Christian faith and economic life adopted by the United Church of Christ. Addressing market failure, for her, requires that sometimes "freedom to choose" give way to other human values. William McGurn, a journalist and a Roman Catholic, uses his expertise in economics to reflect on the teachings of the church concerning the morality of the market. For McGurn, humans reach their fullest potential when they are free from the constraints of others. He writes that "our quarrel is not so much with Adam Smith or Milton Friedman but with the Providence that so clearly designed man to be his most prosperous at his most free." This book grapples with the new imperatives of a global economy while working in the classic tradition of political economy which always treated seriously the questions of morality, justice, productivity, and freedom.

Author : Robert H. Nelson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271066196

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Economics as Religion by Robert H. Nelson Pdf

Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient Greece through the traditions that Nelson identifies as “Protestant” and “Roman,” and on into modern economic forms such as Marxism and capitalism, as well as environmentalism. Nelson argues that economics can be a genuine form of religion and that it should inform our understanding of the religious developments of our times. This edition of Economics as Religion situates the influence of his work in the scholarly economic and theological conversations of today and reflects on the state of the economics profession and the potential implications for theology, economics, and other social sciences.

Author : John Rapley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471152771

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Twilight of the Money Gods by John Rapley Pdf

Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again. Twilight of the Money Gods is the story of economics, told not as the science it strove to be, but as the religion it became. Over two centuries, it searched for the hidden codes which would reveal the path to a promised land of material abundance. While its prophets, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, concerned themselves with the human condition, its priesthood gradually grew remote from its followers, until it lost sight of their tribulations. Today, amid a crisis of faith in their expertise, we must re-imagine an economics for a new era - one filled with both danger and opportunity.

Author : Milton Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UCAL:B3177539

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The Future of Capitalism by Milton Friedman Pdf

Author : Lionel Obadia,Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780522289

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Economics of Religion by Lionel Obadia,Donald C. Wood Pdf

Explores the fresh paradigms of 'religious economics' and 'economies of religion' under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. This title examines and appraises some of the theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences.