Religion, Economy, and Cooperation.
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 maximizers of utility, in the en...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Religion and Reason
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Servants of Two Masters: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation; Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience; Rational Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality; Playing against Superior Beings in Religion, Technology and Economy; Durkheim and Psychology; Religion and the Emergence of the Rule of Law; Max Weber Revisited; The Market, God, and the Ascetic Life; Backmatter.