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This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying institutional and constitutional economics to biblical interpretation, it uses new approach to reconstruct the Paradise story. The author challenges the old conceptual dualism between economics and theology/philosophy.
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Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto is Lecturer in Business Ethics at the School of Management of the University of Leicester, UK. He has widely published on questions of ethics and economics, including the institutional and constitutional economic analysis of biblical stories. His previous publications include Is God an Economist? (also published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Human Nature and Organization Theory (2003), and Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour (1997).
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Book Title: The Economics of Paradise
Book Subtitle: On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity
Authors: Sigmund A. Wagner-Tsukamoto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287700
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28769-4Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28770-0Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Economic History, Religious Studies, general