Religion, economy, and cooperation / [edited by] Ilkka Pyysiäinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pyysiäinen, Ilkka.

Series:

Religion and reason ; 49.

Religion and reason, 0080-0848 ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Religious aspects.

Economics.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Cooperation--Religious aspects.

Cooperation.

Cooperation--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

vii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2010]

Summary:

This volume addresses the issue of religion and economy in the evolution of human cooperation. Both religious practices and economic behaviour create and sustain intra-group cooperation by providing people with common goals and values. Even if individuals are selfish maximizes of utility, in the end everybody benefits from being part of a cooperative community, the market. The rules of the market are the invisible hand which turns selfishness into cooperation. In the same way, God beliefs constrain individual selfishness and ensure cooperation within the group. Book jacket.

Contents:

Servants of two masters : religion, economy, and cooperation / Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Religious culture and cooperative prediction under risk : perspectives from social neuroscience / Joseph Bulbulia and Uffe Schjoedt

Rational choice theory and bounded rationality / Till Grüne-Yanoff

Playing against superior beings in religion, technology and economy / Matti Kamppinen

Durkheim and psychology / Warren Schmaus

Religion and the emergence of the rule of law / Charles M. North and Carl R. Gwin

Max Weber revisited / Robert H. Nelson

The market, God, and the ascetic life / Philip Goodchild.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110246322

3110246325

OCLC:

634741559