Religion as paradigm

Article Abstract:

Incommensurability is shown by competing religions and also by competing sciences, but for science tolerance comes from inside, whereas for religion it comes from outside. A significant difference between rival beliefs in science and rival beliefs in religion may be the link between morality and religion. The perception that the choice of religion is a choice between good and evil in turn reflects social motivation, and the interaction of self-interest and social motivation is important to the theories of institutional economics.

Analysis, Religion and science

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Established clergy, friars and the pope: some institutional economics of the medieval church

Article Abstract:

The economic model presented by Schmidtchen and Mayer for the introduction by 13th century popes of a licensing system for friars is generally plausible but contains some unsatisfying elements. The model seeks to that this organizational change - the licensing of friars - is an efficient adaptation to a doctrinal innovation, that is the concept of purgatory. However, Schmidtchen and Mayer have set out an unnecessarily complex game tree, and treat the friars merely as efficient 'automatons' rather than as profit maximizers.

Models, 13th century AD

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