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Religion, Economy, and Cooperation (Hardcover)
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Religion, Economy, and Cooperation (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Reason
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Why give money to beggars? Why make sacrifices to help others? The
current volume targets such questions with the tools of
neoclassical and behavioural economics, philosophy, and sociology
of religion. Both religion and economics are analyzed as social
institutions that support human intra-group cooperation. Even if
individuals are rational maximizers of personal utility, they yet
must take into account the reciprocal nature of human
relationships. It is better to be part of a cooperative group and
make some personal sacrifices because, in the end, everybody
benefits from this. Sometimes the metaphor of an invisible hand is
used to describe the fact that economic exchange seems to follow
some rules that guarantee the best possible result for everyone. In
religion, it is of course the hand of God that guides the world. In
both cases, individuals are in a way playing against a superior
being that always seems to win. In this volume, some of the
cognitive mechanisms and cultural selective forces behind this are
examined by specialists in different fields of science. The first
contributions analyze theoretical and methodological issues; in
later chapters, developments in the European history are explored
from the perspectives of sociology and economic theory.
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