 On the Genesis of the Wealth of NationsSigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto
Chapter 3 in Is God an Economist?, 2009, pp 73-139 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The book of Genesis starts the analysis of social conflict with the Paradise story. Chapter 2 argued that the Paradise story heuristically sets up the analysis of the institutional problem in the Old Testament, that is, cooperation problems and problems of societal contracting. This chapter critically reconstructs in economic terms some of the key stories that follow the Paradise story. The chapter traces social conflicts, even anarchy, in the book of Genesis that concern incentive structures, dilemmatic interactions regarding capital contributions and distributions, mutual gains and economic man. In relation to the absence or presence of these ideas, I examine how far behavioural, theological models of societal contracting can be found in the Old Testament or whether economic modes for resolving social conflict and organizing cooperative behaviour were pursued. The thesis emerges that, as the stories of Genesis unfold, economic modes increasingly replaced behavioural ones. Keywords: Moral Disagreement; Institutional Problem; Mutual Gain; Cooperation Problem; Capital Utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23409-3_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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