The Economics of Paradise

On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-28769-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4532 g

This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying institutional and constitutional economics to biblical interpretation, it uses new approach to reconstruct the Paradise story. The author challenges the old conceptual dualism between economics and theology/philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner-Tsukamoto, S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Economic Study of the Paradise Story 2. Looming Contest in Paradise 3. The Rise of the Homo Economicus 4. Principal-Agent Conflicts 5. Mutual Gains, Mutual Loss, Prisoner's Dilemma 6. Liberty and Freedom in the Paradise story 7. Modernity of Religion

Über Autor(innen)

Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto is Lecturer in Business Ethics at the School of Management of the University of Leicester, UK. He has widely published on questions of ethics and economics, including the institutional and constitutional economic analysis of biblical stories. His previous publications include Is God an Economist? (also published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Human Nature and Organization Theory (2003), and Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour (1997).