the monetization of the market and the impact on religion, politics, law, and ethics /
edited by Jurgen von Hagen and Michael Welker
xii, 455 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Microfoundations of the uses of money / Jürgen von Hagen -- Money and its role in a decentralized market economy / Peter Bernholz -- Mensura et mensuratum : money as measure and measure for money / Wolfgang Ernst -- Standardization and monetization : legal perspectives / Burkhard Hess -- Kohelet and the co-evolution of a monetary economy and religion / Michael Welker -- Money and image : the presence of the state on the routes of economy / Tonio Hölscher -- The social world of Ecclesiastes / Choon-Leong Seow -- The development of monetary systems in Palestine during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic eras / Ulrich Hübner -- Fate's gift economy : the Chinese case of coping with the asymmetry between man and fate / Rudolf G. Wagner -- "Mothers and children" : discourses on paper money during the Song period / Hans-Ulrich Vogel -- "Buying heaven" : the prospects of commercialized salvation in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries / Berndt Hamm -- The monetization and demonetization of the human body : the case of compensatory payments for bodily injuries and homicide in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Israelite law books / Konrad Schmid -- What price do we place on life? Ethical observations on the limits of law and money in a case of transitional justice / Günter Thomas -- Standardized monetization of the market and the argument for preferential justice / Piet Naudé -- Religious faith and the market economy : a survey on faith and trust of Catholic entrepreneurs in China / Gao Shining and Yang Fenggang -- "Do not sell your soul for money" : economy and eschatology in biblical and intertestamental traditions / Andreas Schüle -- "Businessmen and merchants will not enter the places of my Father" : early Christianity and market mentality / Edmondo F. Lupieri -- Desire in consumer culture : theological perspectives from Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo / John F. Hoffmeyer -- Money as God? Conclusions / Michael Welker and Jürgen von Hagen