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In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see ""theology"" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down. It is a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief - what has been called ""vision"".

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Nelson does not regard theology as a cuss word, and so his detailed study of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down. It s a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief what has been called vision. Nelson . . . speaks with authority from within the field. . . . His grasp of modern economics is broad and firm. And so in theology, too. It s an important, even an amazing book: Luther meets Smith. </p> Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>

Nelson does not regard 'theology' as a cuss word, and so his detailed study of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down. It's a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief--what has been called vision. Nelson...speaks with authority from within the field....His grasp of modern economics is broad and firm. And so in theology, too. It's an important, even an amazing book: Luther meets Smith.

Nelson's book is a challenge to economists to see their field anew. --Eileen Ciesla, American Enterprise

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Robert H. Nelson has had wide government experience in the application of economics to public policy and is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (1991).

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