Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction 1. Economic Study of the Paradise Story 2. Looming Contest in Paradise 3. The Rise of the Homo Economicus 4. Principal-Agent Conflicts 5. Mutual Gains, Mutual Loss, Prisoner's Dilemma 6. Liberty and Freedom in the Paradise story 7. Modernity of Religion