The influence of religious thinking on economic thinking
America’s social gospel, with thoughts on Rerum Novarum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21604641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin M Friedman (0000-0002-5845-9389, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-110 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-2567 • E-ISSN: 1469-5936 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09672567.2024.2433960 |
| OpenAlex | W4405216024 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Contrary to the conventional view that modern Western economics emerged from the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century with no connection to religious ideas, economic thinking at the discipline’s origins was powerfully influenced by what were then new and highly controversial lines of thought within the English-speaking Protestant world. Further, as economies evolved over the subsequent centuries, and the questions economists asked and the approaches they brought to bear changed as well, religious thinking continued to shape economic thinking. The Social Gospel that emerged in America in the late nineteenth century and Pope Leo XIII’s influential statement Rerum Novarum offer an especially interesting example of this influence
Economic Thought · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Gospel · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Social Gospel · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Economics in Perspective
The Life of Adam Smith
History of Economic Analysis
Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
The past and the present of political economy
The Essential Tension
Introduction to Political Economy
Publications of the American Economic Association
Property Rights in John Locke and in Christian Social Teaching
Adam Smith
Social Justice without Socialism
The Ascent and Decline of Catholic Economic Thought, 1830-1950s
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |