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Does Economics Need an Infusion of Religious or Quasi-Religious Formulations? A Symposium Prologue
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 97-105
that is a bad thing, and about the relationship between such understandings and religious faith. …
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Joyful Economics
Claar, Victor V. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 127-135
five roles that may potentially be played by economists of faith in influencing the activity of economists. In particular I … focus upon the significant yet daunting task of communicating sound economics to faith-based audiences who may not be …
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Can ‘Religion’ Enrich ‘Economics’?
Waterman, A. M. C. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 233-242
The knowledge (if any) afforded by Religion comes by the practice of faith, hope, and charity. It is direct … faith, religious knowledge—which fails the test of falsifiability—can be of no service to science. If economics generates … any knowledge at all it is scientific, not religious knowledge. Therefore the knowledge that comes by faith can be of no …
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On the Relationship Between Finite and Infinite Goods, Or: How to Avoid Flattening
Hirschfeld, Mary - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 179-185
Thomas Aquinas can serve as a resource for conceptions of human happiness and practical reason that resist the flatness characteristic of Max U. While Aquinas shares with economists the notion that humans act in order to achieve desirable ends, and that their desire is infinite, he differs from...
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Where There Is No Vision, Economists Will Perish
Clark, Charles M. A. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 136-143
Mainstream economists are currently under fire because they did not foresee the financial meltdown of 2007. This article suggests that many of the shortcomings of neoclassical economics come from its overly narrow understanding of the human person. Economists could turn to the higher discipline...
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On the Usefulness of a Flat Economics to the World of Faith
Morriss, Andrew P. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 194-201
in choosing between that power and simplicity and the alternatives. Rather than deepening our economics with faith, it …
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Economics Is Not All of Life
Emmett, Ross B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 144-152
I trace the arc of my thinking about political economy and Christian theology from my early interactions with the work of Richard Whately and Frank Knight to more recent economic and theological reflections on innovation. The general theme is that life is more than economics, despite the...
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Notes of an Atheist on Economics and Religion
Ghosh, Jayati - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 166-169
Mainstream economics is constrained by methodological individualism, which ignores many aspects of human existence and interaction. Methodological individualism itself propagates certain attitudes and outlooks that can become self-fulfilling by channelling human behaviour into the simplistic...
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Moving from the Empirically Testable to the Merely Plausible: How Religion and Moral Philosophy Can Broaden Economics
George, David - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 160-165
Experiences as a student of psychology and economics led me to question the second-class status of the non-testable. Attention to ‘being’ was insignificant relative to attention given to ‘doing’. Religion and philosophy seemed better suited to capture the internal struggle over one’s...
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Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management
Read, Rupert; Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 219-226
Religions come with risk-​managing interdicts and heuristics, and they carry such interdicts and heuristics across generations. We remark on such facets of religion in relation to a propensity among some decision scientists and others to regard practices that they cannot understand as being...
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