The politics, mathematics and morality of economics: A review essay on Robert Nelson's Economics as Religion

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 161-172

  Young, Cristobal ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central planning; Laissez faire; Mathematical economics; Religion; Socialism; Sociology of economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844284873     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/SER/mwi007     Document Type: Review

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