This page provides a link to the material for Business, Science and Religion (LS 812).
Please note
There is a PRESENTATIONS page
Click here for LS 812 Course Outline
Click here for list of project topics
Click here for model for group presentations
Click here for Term Paper Evaluation Worksheet
For those wanting a more detailed bibliography click here
Selected Downloadable Background Readings
Notes on Millenarianism and the Apocalypse
Notes on Luddites and Neo-Luddites
The Mystery of Goya's
Saturn
Information on Newton's Non-scientific Papers
Helpful background for Biblical studies
History of the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
Background on Thomas Jefferson and the Jefferson Bible
Background on the Inquisitions
see also
the Inquisition FAQ
Background on early Christian heretics, Arians and Gnostics
A review of "Burning Times" (NFB)
Background on the Cathars, a gnostic sect
The Cathars were brutally suppressed in the 13th C.
Background on the Stoics, from early Greek to modern times
A link to
Haskins,
Rise of the Universities
(1923)
Voltaire, "Man of Forty Crowns" (1768)
Some Weekly Readings
Bellhouse (1988), Puritan Casuistry
Stigler (1988), Dark Ages of Probability
"Monopoly Theory Prior to Adam Smith"
"Scholastic Economics"
"Was Isaac Newton an Arian?"
Isaac Newton and the Apocalypse
Defoe, "Villany of Stock jobbers detected" (1701?)
Defoe "Anatomy of Exchange Alley" (1719)
Isaac Lemaire and the Early Trade in VOC shares
Tulipmania
Bartlett on Swift as a Supply-Sider
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Pt.III
Hume "Of Miracles"
Hume's argument against miracles
Price
Dissertation 4
Hume "Public Credit"
Sir (St.) Thomas More, "Utopia"
Woolstonecraft, "Vindication I"
and
"Vindication II"
"The Search for 'General Ludd'"
Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"
Morris, "News from Nowhere"
Bellamy, "Looking Backward"
Click here for Adam Smith lecture notes
An article from Challenge on the invisible hand
An article from the JPE on the invisible hand (this is Grampp)
Background on the 1929 Stock Market Crash
de Bruyn on Millenarianism
Derrida on Lyotard
Lyotard's politics
Jarvis on Ulrich Beck
"Beck Back in the 19th C."
Here are .zip files with the lecture slides:
Click here for Lecture 1
Click here for Lecture 2
Click here for Lecture 3
Click here for Lecture 4
Click here for Lecture 5
Click here for Lecture 6
Click here for Lecture 7
Click here for Lecture 8
Click here for Lecture 9
Click here for Lecture 10
HERE ARE THE CHAPTERS FROM "EARLY HISTORY OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS" FOR DOWNLOAD
Click here for Chapter 2
Click here for Chapter 3
Click here for Chapter 8
Click here for Chapter 10
Click here for Chapter 11
Click here for all the other chapters plus the Bibliography
Some Pictures for week 1 and later
The Beyond Belief link has more pictures
Here are some interesting magazine and journal articles to ponder:
"The Philosophy of Investment: A Post-Keynesian Perspective"
My article from JPKE.
A Neo-Luddite Epilog
Warren Buffett on the Stock Market
from Fortune Dec 10/01.
A Primer on Warren Buffett
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