Religion, Economy, and Cooperation
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Ilkka Pyysiäinen
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Religion, Economy, and Cooperation
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110246339
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Religion and ReasonISSN
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1
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CHF 119.90
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Allgemeines, Lexika
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English
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247
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< >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 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.
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Ilkka Pyysiäinen
, Helsinki University, Finland.
Preface
6
Contents
10
Servants of Two Masters: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation
12
Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience
46
Rational Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality
72
Playing against Superior Beings in Religion, Technology and Economy
94
Durkheim and Psychology
110
Religion and the Emergence of the Rule of Law†
138
Max Weber Revisited
168
The Market, God, and the Ascetic Life
230
Contributors
248
Index
250
