Economics and Religion

Edited by Paul Oslington, Professor of Economics and Dean of Business, Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Australia

’Oslington provides an excellent introductory overview of the field that also discusses other relevant but excluded research. . . this is a valuable collection of papers that demonstrates that both studies of religious behaviour and the impact of religion have long preoccupied economists and, since the 1970s, are increasingly entering the mainstream with a fertile research agenda. . . these volumes provide a useful resource and it may not be too long before a third volume is required to keep pace with the explosion of research in the field.’

• Contents:Volume IAcknowledgementsIntroduction Paul OslingtonPART IHISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS 1. Barry Gordon (1994), ‘Theological Positions and Economic Perspectives in Ancient Literature’2. Bruce J. Malina (1997), ‘Embedded Economics: The Irrelevance of Christian Fictive Domestic Economy’3. Jacob Viner (1978), ‘Religious Thought and Economic Society: Four Chapters of an Unfinished Work’ 4. Jacob Viner (1972), ‘The Invisible Hand and Economic Man’5. John Milbank (1990), ‘Political Economy as Theodicy and Agnostics’6. Emma Rothschild (1994), ‘Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand’7. Lisa Hill (2001), ‘The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’8. A.M.C. Waterman (2002), ‘Economics as Theology: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations’9. Gary M. Anderson (1988), ‘Mr. Smith and the Preachers: The Economics of Religion in the Wealth of Nations’10. Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines (1992), ‘Adam Smith on Competitive Religious Markets’11. J.M. Pullen (1981), ‘Malthus’ Theological Ideas and their Influence on his Principle of Population’12. Boyd Hilton (1985), ‘Chalmers as Political Economist’13. A.M.C. Waterman (2001), ‘The Beginning of “Boundaries”: The Sudden Separation of Economics from Christian Theology’14. Edward Norman (1987), ‘Introduction’ and ‘The Contribution’15. Rodger Charles S.J. (1998), ‘A Summary of Christian Social Teaching’16. Bradley W. Bateman and Ethan B. Kapstein (1999), ‘Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association’17. Robert H. Nelson (1993), ‘The Theological Meaning of Economics’Name IndexVolume IIAcknowledgementsAn introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume IPART IRELIGIOUS ECONOMICS AND ITS CRITICS AChristianity1. Kenneth E. Boulding ([1950] 1968), ‘Religious Perspectives in Economics’2. D.L. Munby (1956), ‘Christians and Economic Problems’3. Frank H. Knight (1939), ‘Ethics and Economic Reform: III. Christianity’4. A.B. Cramp (1982), ‘Preface’ and ‘Naturalism: The World-view of Modern Economics’5. Douglas Vickers (1991), ‘Theology and the Last of the Economists’6. Donald A. Hay (1989), ‘Christianity and Economics: Biblical Foundations’, ‘Christianity and Economics: Theological Ethics’ and ‘Postscript’7. Kim Hawtrey (1986), ‘Evangelicals and Economics’8. Clive Beed and Cara Beed (1996), ‘A Christian Perspective on Economics’9. Michael Novak (1982), ‘A Theology of Democratic Capitalism’10. John P. Tiemstra (1994), ‘What Should Christian Economists Do? Doing Economics, But Differently’11. Paul Heyne (1994), ‘Passing Judgments’12. J. David Richardson (1994), ‘What Should (Christian) Economists Do?...Economics!’ [Originally published as ‘Frontiers in Economics and Christian Scholarship’]BIslam13. Timur Kuran (1995), ‘Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy’CJudaism14. Jacob Neusner (1990), ‘The Economics of Judaism’PART IIECONOMICS OF RELIGION 15. Corry Azzi and Ronald Ehrenberg (1975), ‘Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance’16. Ronald G. Ehrenberg (1977), ‘Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension’17. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison (1989), ‘An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking’18. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison (1992), ‘The Economics of Sin and Redemption: Purgatory as a Market-Pull Innovation?’19. Laurence R. Iannaccone (1992), ‘Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives’20. James D. Montgomery (1996), ‘Contemplations on the Economic Approach to Religious Behavior’21. Steve Bruce (1993), ‘Religion and Rational Choice: A Critique of Economic Explanations of Religious Behavior’22. Steven J. Brams (1980), ‘Introduction’23. Avinash Dixit and Gene Grossman (1984), ‘Directly Unproductive Prophet-Seeking Activities’24. Jagdish Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan (1991), ‘Religion as DUP Activity’Name Index