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The Economics of Paradise: On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity (Hardcover)

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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.

About the Author


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).

Product Details
ISBN: 9781137287694
ISBN-10: 1137287691
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: December 4th, 2014
Pages: 266
Language: English