From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force--religion.
Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets--among economists as well as many ordinary citizens--is a form of religion.
And, it turns out, that in a deeper, more historically grounded sense there is something to that idea.
Contrary to the conventi.
Knopf Publishing Group Religion and the rise of capitalism, hardcover/benjamin m. friedman
