Economic Approach To Religion, An - Couverture souple

Mcbride, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9811271844 ISBN 13 : 9789811271847

Editeur : WSPC, 2022

Synopsis

Why is religion so widespread? Why do individuals donate large amounts of time, money, and effort to religious groups? What forms does the religious competition take? Why are individuals more religious in some countries than others? What is the future of religion? This book provides a non-technical introduction to how the economic approach answers these and other questions about religion. It defines the economic approach to religion and demonstrates how it is used to study a variety of religious decisions. It explains how religious groups confront credibility, free-rider, and coordination problems that challenge the collective production of religious goods and services. It also examines competition and regulation in religious markets around the world, how religious beliefs and preferences are transmitted and sustained, how religion likely emerged in humankind's distant past, and what the future of religion may hold. The book thus demonstrates how the tools and methods of economics provide fresh insight into a variety of religious behaviors. This book is intended for a wide audience in and out of economics. Though not a textbook per se, its discussion questions and suggested readings at the end of each chapter allow for easy incorporation into the classroom. The mathematics and statistics used by researchers are generally avoided. Both theory and evidence are presented, but the focus is on the ideas that provide a coherent conceptual framework that grounds a deeper exploration of the theoretical and empirical research in the economics of religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael McBride is Professor of Economics, Religious Studies, and Logic and Philosophy of Science (courtesy) at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2002. His research uses game theory and experimental methods to study collective action, conflict, and religion, and has appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Public Economics, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics and as Director of the Experimental Social Science Laboratory. His freshman-level course on the economics of religion has been taught annually at UC Irvine since 2006.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WSPC
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811271844
• ISBN 13: 9789811271847
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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