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The Economics of Paradise

On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity

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  • © 2015

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  1. Sigmund A. Wagner-Tsukamoto
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Prologue

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    Pages 9-11

  4. Why and How to Study the Paradise Story in Economic Terms

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    Pages 13-42

  5. Looming Capital Contests in Paradise: No Land of Cockaigne

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    Pages 43-69

  6. Agents of Paradise and the Rise of Self-interest

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    Pages 70-98

  7. The Breakdown of Co-operation in Paradise: The Rise of Anarchy

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    Pages 99-119

  8. Outcomes of the Paradise Interactions: Gains and Losses, Winners and Losers, Rational Fools

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    Pages 120-149

  9. Why Was Paradise Lost? And Is This a Cause for Lament?

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    Pages 150-184

  10. Concluding Remarks: How Modern Is Religion or Is it a Road to the Past?

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    Pages 185-214

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-262
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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.

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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).

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