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RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR
RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR

Author(s): Bălan Sergiu
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: economics; religion; education; homo oeconomicus homo religiosus.

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I will try to highlight the correlations between certain aspects of religious belief and practice, on one hand, and the economic behavior of human agents involved in both kind of activities, on the other hand. The analysis starts with a presentation of Max Weber’s wiew of the role of protestant ethic in the birth of capitalism, and then deals with the last developments in the field of the study of religion and economics mutual dependence.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 92-99
  • Page Count: 8