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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2003 by the
- ISSN
- 1145-6396
- eISSN
- 1145-6396
- DOI
- 10.2202/1145-6396.1101
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Abstract
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines Volume 13, Number 2 2003 Article 13 NUMÉRO 2/3 David L. Prychitko, Northern Michigan University Recommended Citation: Prychitko, David L. (2003) "Catholicism, Calvinism, and the Comparative Developement of Economic Doctrine," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines: Vol. 13: No. 2, Article 13. DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1101 ©2003 by Berkeley Electronic Press and IES-Europe. All rights reserved. Prychitko: Catholicism, Calvinism, and the Comparative Developement of Economic Doctrine Comptes rendus et notes de lecture An Essay on the "Austrian" Perspective A review essay by David L. Prychitko° 1. Introduction « Modern professors of economics and ethics operate in discipline which have been secularized to the point where the religious elements and implications which ne were an integral part of them have been painstakingly eliminated... In my role as historian of ideas however, I am obliged to insist that Adam Smith's system of thought including his economics, is not intelligible if one disregards the role he assigns in it to the theological elements, to the « invisible hand »1 Is science a free-floating rational activity detached from the influences of culture ? Of course not, and questions about the relationship between religion and * I
Journal
Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines – de Gruyter
Published: Jun 1, 2003