The new issue of Econ Journal Watch is online at http://econjwatch.org

In this issue:



A symposium co-sponsored by the Acton Institute:



Does Economics Need an Infusion of Religious or Quasi-Religious Formulations?



The Prologue to the symposium suggests that mainstream economics has unduly flattened economic issues down to certain modes of thought (such as ‘Max U’); it suggests that economics needs enrichment by formulations that have religious or quasi-religious overtones.



Robin Klay helps to set the stage with her exploration “Where Do Economists of Faith Hang Out? Their Journals and Associations, plus Luminaries Among Them.”



Seventeen response essays are contributed by authors, representing a broad range of religious traditions and ideological outlooks:



Pavel Chalupníček:

From an Individual to a Person: What Economics Can Learn from Theology About Human Beings



Victor V. Claar:

Joyful Economics



Charles M. A. Clark:

Where There Is No Vision, Economists Will Perish



Ross B. Emmett:

Economics Is Not All of Life



Daniel K. Finn:

Philosophy, Not Theology, Is the Key for Economics: A Catholic Perspective



David George:

Moving from the Empirically Testable to the Merely Plausible: How Religion and Moral Philosophy Can Broaden Economics



Jayati Ghosh:

Notes of an Atheist on Economics and Religion



M. Kabir Hassan and William J. Hippler, III:

Entrepreneurship and Islam: An Overview



Mary Hirschfeld:

On the Relationship Between Finite and Infinite Goods, Or: How to Avoid Flattening



Abbas Mirakhor:

The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within: On the Flatness of Economics



Andrew P. Morriss:

On the Usefulness of a Flat Economics to the World of Faith



Edd Noell:

What Has Jerusalem to Do with Chicago (or Cambridge)? Why Economics Needs an Infusion of Religious Formulations



Eric B. Rasmusen:

Maximization Is Fine—But Based on What Assumptions?



Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management



Russell Roberts:

Sympathy for Homo Religiosus



A. M. C. Waterman:

Can ‘Religion’ Enrich ‘Economics’?



Andrew M. Yuengert:

Sin, and the Economics of ‘Sin’