RELIGION AND ECONOMICS: NORMATIVE SOCIAL THEORY RECENT ECONOMIC THOUGHT SERIES Editors: Warren J. Samuels William Darity, Jr. Michigan State University University of North Carolina East Lansing, Michigan, USA Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Other books in the series: Klein, Philip A.: THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC THEORY Semmler, Willi.: BUSINESS CYCLES: THEORY AND EMPIRICS Little, Daniel: ON THE RELIABILITY OF ECONOMIC MODELS: ESSAYS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS Weimer, David L.: INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN Davis, John B.: THE STATE OF THE INTERPRETATION OF KEYNES Wells, Paul: POST-KEYNESIAN ECONOMIC THEORY Hoover, Kevin D.: MACROECONOMETRICS: DEVELOPMENTS, TENSIONS AND PROSPECTS Kendrick, John W.: THE NEW SYSTEMS OF NATURAL ACCOUNTS Groenewegen, John: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND BEYOND King, J.E.: AN ALTERNATIVE MACROECONOMIC THEORY Schofield, Norman: COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING: SOCIAL CHOICE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Menchik, Paul L.: HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY ECONOMICS Gupta, Kanhaya L.: EXPERIENCES WITH FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION Cohen, Avi J., Hagemann, Harald, and Smithin, John: MONEY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MACROECONOMICS Mason, P.L. and Williams, R.M.: RACE, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES Gupta, Satya Dev: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION Fisher, R.C.: INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS Mariussen, A. and Wheelock, J.: HOUSEHOLDS, WORK AND ECONOMIC CHANGE: A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Gupta, Satya Dev: GLOBALIZATION, GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY Gupta, Satya Dev: DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT Medema, Steven G.: COASEAN ECONOMICS: LAW AND ECONOMICS AND THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Peoples, James: REGULATORY REFORM AND LABOR MARKETS Dennis, Ken: RATIONALITY IN ECONOMICS: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES Ahiakpor, James C.W.: KEYNES AND THE CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Wolfson, Murray: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WAR AND PEACE Jain, A.K.: ECONOMICS OF CORRUPTION Wheelock, J. and Vail, J.: WORK AND IDLENESS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FULL EMPLOYMENT RELIGION AND ECONOMICS: NORMATIVE SOCIAL THEORY edited by James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman The University of Manitoba Springer Science+Business Media, LLC ISBN 978-94-010-5891-9 ISBN 978-94-011-4401-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4401-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Copyright © 1999 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC Printed on acid-free paper. Contents Contributors VB Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Normative Social Theory James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman 3 PART 1: CASE STUDIES How Through Economics Rabbinic Judaism States its Theory of the Social Order J aco b N eusner 13 2 The Uses of Economics in Papal Encyclicals Andrew M. Yuengert 33 3 Social Thinking in Established Protestant Churches A.M.e. Waterman 51 4 Liberation Theology and Economics: God's Reign and a New Society Thomas L. Schubeck 69 VI 5 Every Square Inch: Kuyperian Social Theory and Economics John P. Tiemstra 85 6 Economics and Evangelicalism Kim Hawtrey 99 PART 2: INTERPETATIVE ESSAYS 7 Social Factors in Religion and Economics James M. Dean 115 8 Economics, Ethics, and Knowledge Sheila C. Dow 123 9 Economics and Religion: Comment Kenneth G. Elzinga 131 10 "If the Trumpet Does Not Sound a Clear Call ... " Paul Heyne 141 II Economics and Technology: Collaboration or Collision? Fred S. McChesney 153 12 On Doing the Impossible Ian Steedman 165 13 Summary If Not Conclusions James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman 175 References 185 Index 197 Contributors James M. Dean Professor, Department of Economics St. John's College University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Sheila Dow Professor, Department of Economics The University of Stirling Stirling, Scotland, Great Britain Kenneth G. Elzinga Professor of Economics University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Kim Hawtrey Professor, Department of Economics MacQuarie University Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Paul Heyne Professor, Department of Economics University of Washington Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. VllI Fred S. McChesney Professor of Law Cornell Law School Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. Jacob Neusner Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies University of South Florida Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. Thomas Schubeck, S.J. Professor, Department of Religious Studies John Carroll University Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Ian Steedman Professor, Department of Economics and Economic History The Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, Great Britain John Tiemstra Professor, Department of Economics and Business Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A. A.M.C. Waterman Professor, Department of Economics St. John's College University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Andrew Yuengert Professor, Business Administration Division Pepperdine University Malibu, California, U.S.A. Acknowledgements The volume editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr. John Stackhouse Jr. and Dr. Moshe Stern. Research assistance was provided by Kristi Henderson and Penelope Roberts. The editorial assistance of Carol Dahlstrom was invaluable. The index was prepared by Renee Fossett. RELIGION AND ECONOMICS: NORMATIVE SOCIAL THEORY