Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism by Christina Petterson, Roland Boer

Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism

Christina Petterson, Roland Boer

207 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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A survey which shows that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers - Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke - read the Bible. This book shows that the Bible was central to the theorization and economic th...

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