"The papers contained in this volume resulted from two conferences at Boston University in 2005 and 2006. The conferences were generously funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, supplemented in 2006 by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation"--P. 9. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Markets and morals. Three hundred years of positive moral effects of the market / Jerry Z. Muller -- The moral consequences of economic growth / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Moral values and market attitudes / Wayne Baker and Melissa Forbes -- State-manipulated markets and morals: Degussa in the Third Reich / Peter Hayes -- The moral implications of preference change / David George -- Market failure for the treatment of animals / Tyler Cowen -- Western intellectuals and commercial society / Alan Kahan -- The market and the pursuit of happiness / Darrin M. McMahon -- Markets and religion. Welfare, property and the divine image in Jewish law and thought / Joseph Isaac Lifshitz -- Capitalism in religious Zionist theory / Alan Mittleman -- Ambivalent embrace: Islamic economics and global capitalism / Robert W. Hefner -- Pentecostalism and economic development / Robert D. Woodberry -- Counting one's blessings: the economic values of Russian Orthodox Christians / Christopher Marsh -- The consumer market and the origins of the African American holiness movement / John M. Giggie -- The political economy of forgiveness / Peter Boettke and Christopher J. Coyne -- Mitch Kapor and the roots of an enlightened economics / Christal Whelan -- Withing and beyong the market: religions, moralities, and philanthropies in Chinese societies / Robert P. Weller.
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