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Economics with a moral dimension.

Publication: One Country
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Economics with a moral dimension.(Manna from Heaven: From Divine Speech to Economic Science)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Manna from Heaven: From Divine Speech to Economic Science

George Ronald

Oxford

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Some of the most fruitful acts of creativity stem from the combination of two previously distinct fields of thought.

A classic example is when Archimedes famously paired his knowledge of the mathematics about volume with the everyday fact that water rises in a tub when one steps into it. "Eureka!" A way to measure the density of an irregular object was realized.

In Manna from Heaven: From Divine Speech to Economic Science, Dalton Garis brings together two fields that are not often paired: economics and religion--and arrives at a creative synthesis that enriches the reader's understanding of both.

His thesis is that there exists a set...

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