Publisert i
Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42 (1) 2007, pp. 42-52
Sammendrag
How moral and religious beliefs interact with market forces is a subject of much debate. Can economic incentives explain why people believe what they believe? Some of our other work has looked at the impact of economic forces on religious intensity1 and at how incentives influence the impact of certain moral
beliefs on gender-based violence.2 This essay uses market forces to explain why fiscal and social conservatism and fiscal and social liberalism come hand-inhand. Religious intensity as social insurance provides a simple explanation. The religious right may be against welfare because it competes against their constituency.