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Economics and Theology: The Fundamental Common Problem

In: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

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  • Warren J. Samuels

    (Michigan State University)

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Economics has at least one problem in common with theological metaphysics, a situation which suggests, but does not prove, that economic reasoning tends necessarily to make assumptions comparable to those made by theology and therefore has an inexorable metaphysical character.

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  • Warren J. Samuels, 1992. "Economics and Theology: The Fundamental Common Problem," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics, chapter 17, pages 292-297, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12371-1_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1_18
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