B History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

摘要

Twelve papers, previously published in the annual supplement to Volume 40 of History of Political Economy, consider the importance of religion in the history of modern economics. Papers discuss religion and political economy in early nineteenth-century France; the ascent and decline of Catholic economic thought, 1830-1950s; revealing the connection between the gospel and history-the definition of "economics at the service of humankind" in the analysis of Francesco Vito; the changing theological context of economic analysis since the eighteenth century; "a hard battle to fight"-natural theology and the dismal science, 1820-50; an inquiry into the nature and effects of Henry Thornton's Christian faith on the existence and content of his economic writings; Henry Sidgwick, theism, and the struggle for utilitarian ethics in economic analysis; faith, morality, and welfare-the English school of welfare economics, 1901-29; Das Adam Smith Problem and faculty psychology in the antebellum North; the move from religious revivals to tariff rancor-preaching free trade rnand protection during the second American party system; the impact of liberal religion on Richard Ely's economic methodology; and the religion of a skeptic-Frank H. Knight on ethics, spirituality, and religion during his Iowa years.