Normative Social Theory James M. Dean and A. M. C. Waterman
University of Manitoba 1. Economics and Religion Once Again This
hook is a sequel to Economics and Religion: Are They Distinct?
(Brennan and Waterman 1994). That volume was motivated by a
frustration born of many disappointing encounters between
economists and theologians in the 1980s. Can bishops, synods, and
other voices of organized religion bring any interesting (and
disinterested) contribution to the public policy debate? If so,
what is the relation of their contribution to that of the purely
"secular" knowledge economists believe they can supply? Can
economists bring any interesting (and disinterested) contribution
to the public policy debate? If so, what is the relation of their
contribution to the fundamental values that inform social ethics
and that are still guarded to a large extent by religious
tradition? All too often the two sides talked at cross-purposes.
Well-intentioned economists coexisted for a few hours or days with
well intentioned theologians whose manner of conceiving social
reality was radically incompatible with their own. There seemed to
be no common ground. The first requisite of any genuine
conversation is an agreed conceptual framework that is able to
accommodate the peculiar social vision both of the economist and of
theologian, and to display the logical relation between the two."
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