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Retrospectives: Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association

  • Bradley W. Bateman
  • Ethan B. Kapstein
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 13, no. 4, Fall 1999
(pp. 249–258)
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Abstract

This essay examines the strong influence of the Social Gospel movement on the founding of the American Economic Association. Richard T. Ely, the driving force behind the Association's founding, was also the most popular figure in the Social Gospel movement. The essay discusses Ely's influence in the statement of principles that shaped the early AEA and how the founders conceived their original mission as a scientific enterprise to better the lives of the poor and the working class.

Citation

Bateman, Bradley, W., and Ethan B. Kapstein. 1999. "Retrospectives: Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13 (4): 249–258. DOI: 10.1257/jep.13.4.249

JEL Classification

  • A14 Sociology of Economics
  • Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
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