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Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism

By Roland Boer Dalian University of Technology, Christina Petterson
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By Roland Boer Dalian University of Technology, Christina Petterson
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Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers—Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke––read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith—who took the title of his Wealth of Nations from Isaiah (61:6, 66:12)—they show that early theories of capitalism were shaped by particular assumptions that these theorists brought to their readings of the story of Eden in particular....

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