arguments Elster uses to criticize the application of the rational choice approach in economics - especially in the economic …

The existing literature on Islamic economics has not undergone any of the processes of verification or falsification … a social science. For developing Islamic economics as a social science, we must understand the primary sources in a … economics is either superfluous, or ambiguous or confusing. It does not help in transforming the Islamic economic teachings into …

. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …

religion is a moderator of time preference across potential investments, including: savings, social capital, and human capital …

There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that … religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …