... interpretations, and the truth is proba- bly somewhere in between. That the Christian Fathers regarded this world and its goods with contempt, as a world corrupted in its nature by sin, has often been claimed, but has also often been denied, on the basis of citations from their writings which...

.... Barry Gordon, University of Newcastle, New South Wales Revolution, Economics and Religion: Christian Political Economy 1798-1833. By A. M. C. Waterman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi, 310 pp. $49.50. This is a clearly structiired and well-written book on the sort...

...). Athens: Apostolic Deacony of the Church of Greece. Dawkins , R. 1976 . The Selfish Gene. Greek translation by L. Margaritis and A. Tsoukaladakes. Athens: Katoptro. Geanakoplos , D. 1980 . St. Basil, Christian Humanist of the Three Hierarchs and Patron Saint of Greek Letters Greek...

... with William Wilberforce to assemble the “Clapham sect.” This group of evangelical Christians pressed the cause of Christ in all manner of venues, most prominently in seeking to end the slave trade and in working to repatriate freed slaves to Africa. Thornton served on numerous committees working...

... by Duke University Press Lending at interest: some Jewish, Greek, and Christian approaches, 800 BC-AD I 00 Barry Gordon And in another great lake full of pus and blood and boiling mire stood men and women up to their knees. And these were...

... of Christianity. By Robert B. Ekelund, Robert Hébert, and Robert Tollison. MIT Press, 2006. 355 pp. $29.95. As Laurence Iannoccone (1998) pointed out in a fi ne introduction to the subject, the economics of religion may have gotten off to a slow start, but ever since the publica- tion of Corry Azzi...

...Donald E. Frey The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics . Edited by Oslington Paul . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . xvi ; 640 pp. £100.00 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution. By Robert...

... questions of His day, Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, Vol. 8. By Douglas E. Oakman. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mel- len Press, 1986. Pp. 319. This is the publication of a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, originally submitted to the Graduate Theological Union...

...Christian E. Weber Correspondence may be addressed to Christian E. Weber, Department of Economics and Finance, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University,Seattle, WA 98122; e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2001 Allen, R. G. D. 1932...

...Christian E. Weber Correspondence may be addressed to Christian E. Weber, Department of Economics and Finance, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University,Seattle, WA 98122; e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2005 Allen, R. G. D. 1932...

...Christian Gehrke; Heinz D. Kurz Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz: Reconstructing the Classical Theory of Value and Distribution Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz Among Piero Sraffaʼs unpublished papers is a notebook with extensive excerpts from and critical comments on three contributions...

...Christian E. Weber Department of Economics and Finance, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University, Seattle WA 98122; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Allen , R. G. D. 1936 . Professor Slutsky's Theory...

...Christian E. Weber Department of Economics and Finance, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References D'Albergo , E. 1949 . “L'Analisi Pareto-Slutsky...

...Torsten Schmidt; Christian E. Weber Correspondence may be addressed to Christian E. Weber, Department of Economics and Finance, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122; e-mail: [email protected] . We would like to thank Wade Hands, Burt Hopkins, Dean...

...” as an independent sphere that had already been created through developments such as the commoditization of time. The result of such commoditization is that modern economics becomes antagonistic to Christianity as it reframes human interaction within a system of exchange that ensures time is money. For Christians...

...) was supposed to be compatible with Christian belief and of service to Newtonian natural theology. This changed suddenly in 1798. Thomas Robert Malthus's first Essay inaugurated “economics” (the study of scarcity), seemingly incompatible with the Christian religion. Richard Whately's distinction between...

... no longer be found in traditional Christian beliefs, it had to be sought either through reinterpreting these beliefs or looking elsewhere. Tawney turned to Christian socialism, remaining within the Church of England, and Hobson turned to the Ethical Movement, but both were seeking ethical judgments...

... Kant or Bentham, but virtue ethics has recently come back. From the Seven Primary Virtues, Smith chose five to admire especially. He chose all four of the pagan and stoic virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and prudence. To these he added, as virtue number five, a part of the Christian virtue...

...Xuan Zhao Abstract This article argues that Prussian industrialization policies implemented by Peter Beuth and Christian Rother from 1820 to 1848 worked as a kind of cameralism in practice. This argument is supported by two main points: first, Beuth, the primary Prussian industrialization promoter...