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100	1		_aBrekke, Torkel. _980894
245	1	0	_aFaithonomics : _breligion and the free market _cTorkel Brekke.
260			_aLondon _bHurst &Company _c2016
300			_aix, 298 pages ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: An economic take on religion -- Part 1. The market for religion. Should priests be bribed into laziness? -- Beer, haircuts and religious services -- Priests and fighter pilots -- Faith as social glue: the history of a bad idea -- Part 2. History--religious markets in other times and places. Religious markets in Islam -- Religious markets in Hinduism -- Religious markets in Buddhism -- Religious markets in medieval Catholicism -- Part 3. The present--seven sins of government intervention. Crowding out: when government kills initiative -- Rent-seeking: religions jockeying for privilege -- Monopoly: Nordic state churches and communist repression -- Discrimination: women, gay people and God -- Persecution: states, religions and violence -- Reification: how states fix religions in space and time -- Imitation: why do atheists and Buddhists behave like Christians?
520			_a"Does anyone have a monopoly on God? Can religion be bought or sold? Why do we pay priests? How do we limit religious conflicts? And should states get involved in matters of faith? "Faithonomics" shows that religion should be analyzed as a market similar to those for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. It is about religion today, but Brekke shows us that there have always been religious markets, all over the world, regulated to a greater or lesser degree. He argues that state "control" over religious markets is often the cause of unforeseen and negative consequences. Many of today's problems like religious terrorism or rent-seeking by religious political parties, are easier to understand if we think like economists. Religious markets work best when they are relatively free, and religious organizations should be left to sell their products without unnecessary restrictions. We have no good reason to grant any one of them special privileges, political or financial."--book jacket front flap.
650		0	_aReligion and politics. _980895
650		0	_aEconomics _xMoral and ethical aspects. _980896
650		0	_aEconomics _xPhilosophy. _980897
650		0	_aEconomics _xReligious aspects. _956856
650		0	_aFree enterprise _xReligious aspects. _980898
650		0	_aPurchasing power _xReligious aspects. _980899
650		0	_aBusiness _xReligious aspects. _980900
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