... Right s Stealth Plan for America. New York: Viking. Olson, Mancur, and Christopher K. Clague. 1971. Dissent in Economics: the Con- vergence of Extremes. Social Research 38, no. 4: 751 76. The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History. By George L. Priest. London: Routledge, 2020. xii; 130 pp...

...- preting them and for much background information. I am also grateful to Miss Jean Ken- nedy, County Archivist, Norfolk Record Oftice. for supplying information and a copy of' ;L letter relating to Malthus' ordination as a priest. and for permission to quote an extract. Geoff Harris. Graydon...

... Stealth Plan for America. New York: Viking. Olson, Mancur, and Christopher K. Clague. 1971. Dissent in Economics: the Con- vergence of Extremes. Social Research 38, no. 4: 751 76. The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History. By George L. Priest. London: Routledge, 2020. xii; 130 pp., $54.95...

... comes from a kind of univer- sal and intimate revelation that everybody can freely feel, independently of any intercession on the part of any other human being—priests—and thus of any dogma. Yes, without doubt there was a revelation, but this revelation is uni- versal, it is permanent, it has...

... priests of the modern age” (20). Under- standing this priestly role is important for understanding current policy,since there is a current crisis of social legitimacy and a “wide loss of faith today in the redeeming benefits of economic progress itself” (12). The five parts of the book develop...

... to their daily mental practice of economics. It is the same tension felt probably by a local parish priest, also an amateur scholar of church history, who is asked to write about a supposedly dead heresy that seems to be reemerging. Historical insight must confront defense of the faith. Readers...

..., and have allowed every man to chuse his own priest and his own religion as he thought proper” (V.i.g., 8). The result would have been the evolutionary emergence of “a great multitude of religious sects. Almost every congregation might probably have made a little sect by itself, or have entertained...

... the decisions of Calvinist (or Presbyterian) synods. There was no institutional process whereby uniformity of decisions through time and place could be reached or enforced. It was addressed to the general body of believers and not exclusively to a professional priest- hood, as in the Catholic...

... that if a strict laissez-faire policy had instead been observed toward all religious sects, with every man free “to chuse his own priest and his own religion,” the outcome would ultimately have produced only favorable social effects. In an environment of many small religious sects, each sect would...

...!’ For a worthless thing, you exact an extortionate pledge. (Micah 2:8-10) The Deuteronomic Reform About 622 BC, under Josiah, there was a strong movement, supported by prophets and priests, to establish an authoritative set of laws...

... and the disappearance of the middle class,” which discusses the reasons set forth by Marx for the continuation of the middle class of independent craftsmen , priests , shop keepers, physicians , teachers, domes tic and public servants, etc., even if the existence of this class obscures the essen- tial...

... these various persons’ self-interests : the decisions are not especially subtle or especially demanding of information. One could make a fair case, I believe, that every alleged failure was nonexistent or of negligible magnitude. The high priest of self-interest, like all other high priests, had...

...: In his controversy with Thomas Reid and Richard Price, Priest- ley did defend Hartley’s psychology as well as his materialism and ne- cessitarianism, but he had his own methodological and epistemological doctrines—a kind of Baconian Newtonianism. Priestley’s claims were that those “hypotheses” should...

... scar- city. Economic progress has a redemptive power. Further, it is not surprising to find professional economists at the centers of contemporary power structures, since they are the priests of the new theology. Despite its secular tone, modern economic theology is seen by the author...

..., it is not surprising to find professional economists at the centers of contemporary power structures, since they are the priests of the new theology. Despite its secular tone, modern economic theology is seen by the author as be- ing firmly set within the Judeo-Christian heritage. Economics is very mucb...

... by Smith, were indeed “doing their job” of pursuing self-interest. ”The High Priest of self-interest,” Stigler observes “like all other high priests, has a strong demand for sinners.” But if, as Adam Smith believed, each successful constitution is sustained by a large base of self-interest...

.... Kempe was particu- larly disgusted with how monetization had corrupted priests. He pro- claimed that the priests greed was insatiable, much like the devil. He asked, What does the priest do in his occupation that does not have to be compensated with money? Can any child be baptized without money? 9...

... a domestic market, the only source of obvious mission income was the export trade, which was largely illegal until 1821.2 By 1820, the mis- sions were reputed to be among the most economically successful orga- nizations in wartime Mexico.3 By 1830, stories circulated that the priests were smuggling gold...

... highlight the confessional manual, a priest’s hand- book, whose ideas define a distinct line of development in economic thought, on the borders of theology and common law. Elsewhere Langholm presents the summa, summu theologica or, more specifically, the treatise based upon the fundamental me...

...Jacques J. Polak Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 References Black , Stanley W. 1991 . A Levite Among the Priests: Edward M. Bernstein and the Origins of the Bretton Woods System . Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. Blaugh , Mark . 1986 . Who's Who in Economics...