آیا خدا یک اقتصاددان است؟ بازسازی اقتصادی نهادی عهد عتیق [کتاب انگلیسی] Is God an Economist?: An Institutional Economic Reconstruction of the Old Testament English Palgrave Macmillan 2009 Table of contents :,Cover......Page 1,Contents......Page 8,List of Figures......Page 13,Preface......Page 14,Acknowledgements......Page 16,Copyright Acknowledgements......Page 17,Introduction......Page 18,1 The Economic Approach to Reconstructing the Bible......Page 28,On the textual nature of Old Testament deconstruction......Page 29,Incentive structures and the societal contract......Page 35,From positive to normative institutional economics: Analysing and achieving mutual gains......Page 40,Interactions over capital contributions and capital distributions......Page 42,Dilemma structures and economic man and intervention with the incentive compatibility of the situation......Page 43,1.2 Differences to previous economic and theological research on the Old Testament......Page 45,The theological approach to understanding the Bible......Page 46,The religious economic approach to Bible studies......Page 49,Economic research on the Bible: Ontological issues or a matter of approach?......Page 55,Does economics entertain an unrealistic and dark image of human nature?......Page 57,1.4 Concluding remarks......Page 59,2.1 The heuristic role of the commons dilemma and the prisoner's dilemma in institutional economic reconstruction......Page 62,2.2 The original sin and a rational fools' dilemma in Paradise......Page 66,Capital scarcities and capital contribution issues in Paradise......Page 67,Capital scarcities and capital distribution issues in Paradise......Page 68,A constitutional economic reading of scarcity problems and interaction conflict in Paradise......Page 70,Contested 'good x' and the natural distribution state in the Paradise story......Page 73,Rationally foolish interaction outcomes for God and Adam , Eve......Page 75,The original sin as analytical driver of Bible stories......Page 77,2.3 The first encounter with 'economic man' in the Paradise story: The portrayal of human nature or methodological fiction?......Page 80,On the heuristic purpose of economic man......Page 81,Economic man in the Paradise scenario and the snake metaphor......Page 82,2.4 Concluding remarks......Page 87,3 On the Genesis of the Wealth of Nations......Page 90,3.1 Evidence of behavioural economics in the early stories of Genesis: Social ordering in value homogeneous settings......Page 91,The early societal contract: Value contracts with God as sovereign......Page 92,Behavioural economic ordering in the early stories of Genesis......Page 95,Scarcities in capital as starting point of biblical storytelling......Page 99,A dilemmatic conflict model of capital contributions and capital distributions......Page 101,Incentive structures and institutional ordering in the early biblical society......Page 111,Wealth of nations (mutual gains) as goal of conflict resolution......Page 114,Pluralism as a rising interaction condition in Genesis: Towards an economic societal contract......Page 116,Self-interest, wealth accumulation and wealth creation......Page 126,Darker shades of self-interest: The behavioural punishment of 'bad', opportunistic behaviour......Page 128,Biblical characters getting away with opportunistic behaviour?......Page 130,3.4 Economic ordering in complex, multicultural settings: Joseph and the Israelites in Egypt......Page 135,Dilemmatic scarcities as interaction conditions in the Joseph story......Page 137,Pluralism as an interaction condition in the Joseph story......Page 138,Egypt's economic policies under Joseph's reign......Page 140,Joseph: Hero by thesis, Moses: Non-hero by anti-thesis......Page 145,3.5 Concluding remarks......Page 152,4 On the Exodus of the Wealth of Nations......Page 157,4.1 The breakdown of cooperation and rational foolishness as outcome of Moses' and the pharaoh's interactions......Page 158,The commons dilemma and uncontrolled population growth......Page 159,Further cooperation dilemmas and unresolved industrial relations problems......Page 162,A modern parallel of industrial relations problems in an Exodus-like scenario......Page 165,The failure to intervene with economic institutions in a dilemma structure......Page 167,Mutual loss as interaction outcome......Page 171,Moses and the pharaoh acting like economic men......Page 174,The snake metaphor in Exodus......Page 176,Cooperation failures driven by God......Page 178,Godly intervention in Exodus and the failure to master pluralism as interaction condition......Page 182,4.4 Concluding remarks......Page 183,5 Institutional Ordering after the Exodus......Page 186,Dilemmatic interest conflicts during the Exodus journey and the Levites' economic man-like, opportunistic acquisition of influence......Page 187,Incentive structures, biblical laws and new societal contracting......Page 192,Economic organization structures for the Exodus journey......Page 196,Capital exchange in social interactions......Page 198,Mutual gains as interaction outcome......Page 199,The loss of pluralism as interaction condition......Page 200,5.2 Institutional ordering after the Exodus journey......Page 202,Dilemmatic interest conflicts after the first settlements: The 'war of all' breaking out......Page 203,Incentive structures in the resettlement phase......Page 206,Capital exchange in the resettlement phase......Page 211,Mutual gains: Zero-sum and nonzero-sum games after the Exodus journey......Page 212,Resettlement crusades, institutional ordering and the instrumental role of economic man......Page 214,The loss of pluralism as interaction condition......Page 216,5.3 Concluding remarks......Page 217,6 Economic and Non-Economic Interpretations of God in the Old Testament......Page 220,God as value contractor: Loser in the Paradise story......Page 222,God as value contractor after the Paradise story: New value contracts with humans......Page 224,God's struggle with Jacob: The value contractor losing to economic man......Page 226,God as interventionist, ruler and value fundamentalist prosecutor......Page 229,God as inspirational source of intellectual capital......Page 232,6.3 Abstracting the notion of God for economic principles of social ordering......Page 234,God as principle of creative social ordering......Page 235,God and the principle of mutuality of gains as interaction outcome......Page 236,God as a reflection of the principle of maintaining pluralism as an interaction condition......Page 238,The idea of God as a solution for everything?......Page 239,God as a reference to the Unexplained in general......Page 241,Abstracting the restfrage: On the reduction of schisms between religion and the sciences......Page 242,6.5 Concluding remarks......Page 244,7 Conclusions and After thoughts on the Economic Reconstruction of the Old Testament......Page 249,7.1 The Old Testament and economic role models for societal contracting, international relations and nation-building......Page 251,7.2 Organization structures, transactions cost efficiencies and environmental conditions......Page 255,7.3 The onset of modernity in the Old Testament: Pluralism as interaction condition......Page 256,7.4 Encountering dilemma structures and economic man in the Old Testament......Page 258,7.5 A brief note on the question of authorship of the Old Testament......Page 261,7.6 On the capitalist ethics of the Old Testament: Revisiting the Weber thesis......Page 262,7.7 So, is God an economist?......Page 265,Bibliography......Page 270,G......Page 281,N......Page 282,W......Page 283,C......Page 286,E......Page 288,I......Page 289,J......Page 290,N......Page 291,P......Page 292,T......Page 293,Z......Page 294 text Wagner-Tsukamoto, Sigmund Author Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto Author book 9780230222229 1402-03-01 1402-03-02