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Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism

In: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism

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  • Maria Pia Paganelli

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Adam Smith sees religion both as having a useful and a dangerous role. People create gods to explain what they do not understand and appease their desire of justice when human justice is perceived to fail. These are socially useful functions of religion. But when religion is used as a political tool and is used for state capture purposes, then it becomes a dangerous and destructive force in society.

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  • Maria Pia Paganelli, 2023. "Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, in: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism, volume 41, pages 27-35, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rhetzz:s0743-41542023000041a003
    DOI: 10.1108/S0743-41542023000041A003
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