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Private Money as a Competing Medium of Exchange

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  • Mark Pingle

    () (Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno)

  • Sankar Mukhopadhyay

    () (Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno)

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Using a relatively mild restriction on the beliefs of the MMEU-apreference functional, in which the decision maker’s degree of ambiguity and degree of pessimism are each parameterized, we present a rather general theory of religious choice in the decision theory tradition, one that can resolve dilemmas, address the many Gods objection, and address the inherent ambiguity. Using comparative static analysis, we are able to show how changes in either the degree of ambiguity or the degree of pessimism can lead a decision maker to “convert” from one religion to another. We illustrate the theory of religious choice using an example where the decision maker perceives three possible religious alternatives.

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Paper provided by University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Economics & University of Nevada, Reno , Department of Resource Economics in its series Working Papers with number 08-004.

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Length: 38 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2008
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Handle: RePEc:unr:wpaper:08-004

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Keywords: Private money; Speculative demand; Search theory; Medium of exchange;

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