OF RELIGION Rodney Stark’s: A Theory Of Religion Laurence Ianncone’s Economics o

http://www.colorado.edu/economics/morey/4999Ethics/Religion/Iannaccone1998_Edward.pdfECONOMICS OF RELIGION

Rodney Stark’s: A Theory Of Religion

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813523303/

Laurence Ianncone’s Economics of Religion

http://www.colorado.edu/economics/morey/4999Ethics/Religion/Iannaccone1998_Edward.pdf

Iannaccone, Laurence. “Economics of Religion.” (with William S. Bainbridge). The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, Second Edition, edited by John Hinnells. Routledge: 2010, pp. 461-475.

Iannaccone, Laurence. “Funding the Faiths: Toward a Theory of Religious Finance” (with Feler Bose). The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel McCleary. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2011, pp. 323-342.

Iannaccone, Laurence R., Colleen E. Haight, and Jared Rubin. 2011. “Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77, no. 3: 326-338.

BECKER

I was heavily influenced by Gary Becker’s work. And because of my work on propertarianism, testimonial truth, operationalism, and critical rationalism, I have come to see that there is merit both in deductive(rational), operational (descriptive) and empirical (correlative) work. But I think the point is that Becker succeeds in all three dimensions when he works, and caps it off with elegant charts.

The value of this deductive work (Stark’s) is that these statements can be implemented as software models.