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1. Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: An Introduction-Bradley Bateman and H. Spencer Banzhaf
2. Continental Europe: Introduction
3. Religion and Political Economy in Early-Nineteenth-Century France-Gilbert Faccarello and Philippe Steiner
4. The Ascent and Decline of Catholic Economic Thought, 1830–1950s-António Almodovar and Pedro Teixeira
5. Revealing the Connection between the Gospel and History: The Definition of "Economics at the Service of Humankind" in the Analysis of Francesco Vito-Daniela Parisi
6. The United Kingdom: Introduction
7. The Changing Theological Context of Economic Analysis since the Eighteenth Century -A. M. C. Waterman
8. "A Hard Battle to Fight": Natural Theology and the Dismal Science, 1820–50-Harro Maas
9. An Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of Henry Thornton's Christian Faith on the Existence and Content of His Economic Writings -Neil T. Skaggs
10. "Losing My Religion": Sidgwick, Theism, and the Struggle for Utilitarian Ethics in Economic Analysis-Steven G. Medema
11. Faith, Morality, and Welfare: The English School of Welfare Economics, 1901–29
12. The United States: Introduction
13. Das Adam Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North-Stewart Davenport
14. From Religious Revivals to Tariff Rancor: Preaching Free Trade and Protection during the Second American Party System-Stephen Meardon
15. The Impact of Liberal Religion on Richard Ely's Economic Methodology-Donald E. Frey
16. The Religion of a Skeptic: Frank H. Knight on Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion during His Iowa Years-Ross B. Emmett
17. Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Conclusion to the Volume-Bradley Bateman and H. Spencer Banzhaf
18. Contributors
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“Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy” considers the historical and current relationship between religious and economic schools of thought. The volume explores the integration of theology and economics that was prevalent before the twentieth century, the rise of secular neoclassical economic models in the middle of that century, and the recent trend toward examining economic behavior through the prism of religious belief.
Two of the essays examine the antagonism between Christianity and utilitarianism in postrevolutionary French economics and the rising influence of the materialism of the market vis-à-vis the declining authority of the Roman Catholic Church in eighteenth-century Europe. Other topics explored include the work of the great American neoclassicist Frank Knight, the combination of utility analysis and Christian principles among the “clerical economists” in America, and the effect of a crisis of personal faith on the theories of the English philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick.