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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Economics and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …

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Egalitarian religion and economics

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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Fifty years a-growing: Economic history and demography in the ESR

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...

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Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?

Fix, Blair - 2022

ideology, I use a sample of 43 introductory economics textbooks. My claim is that these textbooks deal mostly in capitalist … sample of biblical and economics text, I first isolate the jargon words of each corpus. Then I use the Google English corpus …, biblical jargon became less popular and was slowly replaced by economics jargon. I also find evidence that the popularity of …

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Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?

Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2022) 102, pp. 55-88

mainstream economics textbooks as my corpus of capitalist thinking, I isolate the jargon of these books and then track its … replaced by the language of economics. Surprisingly, however, I find that since the 1980s, the trend has reversed. Today, the … language of economics is waning, while biblical language is on the rise. Is this evidence that we’ve passed the peak of …

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