1st Edition

Political Economy and Religion Essays in the History of Economic Thought

Edited By Gilbert Faccarello Copyright 2019
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

Ever since Antiquity, reflections about economic problems have always been intertwined with questions relating to politics, ethics and religion. From the 18th century onwards, economic thought seemed to have been gradually disentangled from any other field, and to have gained the status of an autonomous scientific discipline, especially with the later use of mathematics. In fact, the growth of... Read more

Introduction – Sæculum  1. Agency, exchange, and power in scholastic thought  2. The concept of "lawfulness" in economic matters. Reading Ibn Rushd (Averroes)  3. The necessity to work, according to John Calvin’s duty of stewardship  4. Liberal Jansenists and interest-bearing loans in eighteenth-century France: a reappraisal  5. Defending free trade after physiocracy: On Dugald Stewart’s architectonic of passions, reason and Providence  6. Theological themes in Ricardo’s papers and correspondence  7. Religion and political economy in Saint-Simon  8. A dance teacher for paralysed people? Charles de Coux and the dream of a Christian political economy  9. Religion and the sociological critique of political economy: Altruism and gift  10. Henry Sidgwick, moral order, and utilitarianism  11. Pigou on philosophy and religion  12. Keynes and Christian socialism: Religion and the economic problem

Biography

Gilbert Faccarello is a Professor at Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, France. He is a founding editor of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and the co-editor of the Routledge Historical Resources website devoted to the History of Economic Thought. He is the editor of Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis (3 volumes, co-edited with Heinz D. Kurz, 2016).