Title: Re: Jim Craven review of "Economics as Religion" (from Marxmail)
That's a contradiction in liberalism that's as old as Hobbes and Locke:
invidualism is wonderful, so they say, until it starts undermining the
system that allows individualism to reign. I don't
John Henry had a more positive review of the book, in that it showed the
contradictory nature of neo-liberal thought. Individualism is supposedly
good, but too much individualism is destructive.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5
"Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond" by Robert H.
Nelson, Penn State Press, N.Y., 2001
When I bought this book it was shrink-wrapped to prevent examining its
contents prior to purchase. I should have remembered my own axiom: "If it
is shrink-wra
I wrote:>>normative assumptions seem inherent in the process of building
models. Models, by their very nature, simplify empirical reality in order to
understand it. Then you must decide which simplifying assumptions to
make. The standard one is "perfect competition without externalities (etc.)"
--
normative assumptions seem inherent in the process of building models.
Models, by their very nature, simplify empirical reality in order to
understand it. Then you must decide which simplifying assumptions to make.
The standard one is "perfect competition without externalities (etc.)" -- so
that t
>Positive economics is alive and well and living in Austria? What a
crock. Show me any orthodox micro analysis that isn't rife with
normative assumptions and I will genuflect with humiliation. I have
no worries that I will be so obliged. <
normative assumptions seem inherent in the process
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>At times
Tollison has written extensively about the Catholic church as a monopoly
in the market for salvation. He is very conservative (of the Austrian
variety) and so would not be sympathetic to the book. That he was as
positive as he was suggests that the book might be good.
--
Michael Perelman
Econo
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Robert H. Nelson. _Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago
and Beyond_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press,
2001. xxvi + 378 pp. Index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-271-02095-4.
Reviewed for H-B
Jon Elster has a number of recent works on norms that seem to fit the bill;
the titles escape me just now. --jks
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> Here is a slightly different variant.
>
> Ekelund, Robert B., Jr, Robert F. Hebert and Robert D. Tollison.
1989.
> "An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent
> Seeking." Journal of Law, Economics
On Monday, June 11, 2001 at 15:01:56 (-0700) Tim Bousquet writes:
>I'ver been working on an article for sometime about
>the religion of the market. Thomas Frank, of Babbler
>Magazine, sort of beat me to the punch with his "One
>Market Under God," but there's still a lot to be said.
>Ken Lay is exa
June Nash, "We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us"
Emile Zola, "Germinal"
Marshall Sahlins, "Stone Age Economics"
Harry Braverman, "Labor and Monopoly Capital"
David Noble, "Forces of Production"
At 02:52 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic
Some people from Auburn have written some nice stuff against the Catholic
church, describing the struggles of the reformation, as an attempt to
break the Catholic's monopoly on the "market for salvation."
Here is a slightly different variant.
Ekelund, Robert B., Jr, Robert F. Hebert and Robert
The reviewer, Timur Kuran, has also writen on the subject.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:37:00PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> Economics as Religion
> From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
> Robert H. Nelson
> Spring 2001 | 392 pgs | 6 x 9
>
> An insightful exploration of the
Kenneth Boulding.
The Economy of Love and Fear.
mbs
Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic behaviour
say of individuals to noneconomic wants (religion, group solidarity, and
the like)? I would prefer a less technical/modelling approach and more of
a truly interdisciplinar
Harvey Cox had an article titled "The Market as God" in the ATLANTIC
MONTHLY. I don't know the date.
At 03:01 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I'ver been working on an article for sometime about
>the religion of the market. Thomas Frank, of Babbler
>Magazine, sort of beat me to the punch with his "
goes around endowing chairs at Universities that
promote "free market" ideology and such.
Tim
--- Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Economics as Religion
> From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
> Robert H. Nelson
> Spring 2001 | 392 pgs | 6 x 9
>
> An insig
Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic behaviour
say of individuals to noneconomic wants (religion, group solidarity, and
the like)? I would prefer a less technical/modelling approach and more of
a truly interdisciplinary treatment, bringing to bear insights from
anthropolog
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Robert H. Nelson
Spring 2001 | 392 pgs | 6 x 9
An insightful exploration of the powerful role that economic belief plays
in our modern society as a secular religion that serves many of the same
functions as early Christian and other
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