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The influence of ideas is a central but puzzling problem in the social sciences. Parsons insisted that ideas play a central role in social continuity as well as in social change. Basic ideas that organise experience become embedded in the public mind and structure the ways in which issues are...
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The influence of ideas is a central but puzzling problem in the social sciences. Parsons insisted that ideas play a central role in social continuity as well as in social change. Basic ideas that organise experience become embedded in the public mind and structure the ways in which issues are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805204
Conservative Party and now Britain's Prime Minister, called for embracing a “moral capitalism.” The purpose of this paper is to … rational” natural religion has been interpreted as being compatible with the type of competitive market economy that he … analyzed in Wealth of Nations. Veblen's natural religion of “Christian morals” had a natural rights analogue in the ethics of a …
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The title is intentionally facetious, rhetorical and to be taken cum grano salis. For certain ones prone to confusing fact with fancy, the events in the USSR of 1989 and the appearance of John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus on the heels thereof respectively sounded the death‐knell for Marx’s...
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Conservative Party and now Britain's Prime Minister, called for embracing a “moral capitalism.” The purpose of this paper is to … rational” natural religion has been interpreted as being compatible with the type of competitive market economy that he … analyzed in Wealth of Nations . Veblen's natural religion of “Christian morals” had a natural rights analogue in the ethics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805661
to the establishment of capitalism, and certainly not the laissez‐faire variety, with Poland cited as the illustrative … case. Karl Polanyi′s necessary conditions for laissez‐faire capitalism in the nineteenth century represent the point of …
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capitalism, and to put into a broader theoretical context many of the critiques levelled against the Church′s teachings. This in …
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In his economic writings John Paul II asserts the importance of placing the human person at the center of deliberations concerning the economy. Neoclassical economists show that free trade enhances the efficiency of society. However, a byproduct of free trade is greater competition, as countries...
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Purpose – Among the several sub-themes for this Special Issue this paper aims to deal, broadly, with the Hindu view of economics and allied matters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a conceptual one that highlights a few crucial aspects of the “positive” flank of Hinduism...
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religion increases cooperation because religious people fear the retributions that may follow if they do not follow the rules … and norms provided by the religion. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports results for a public goods experiment …
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