Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins
挑战经济学起源于世俗启蒙运动的传统观点，论证亚当·斯密等人的思想深受当时英语世界新教信仰变革的影响，特别是脱离正统加尔文主义的关键方面，并指出这种宗教影响持续塑造着当今经济问题的公共讨论。
In contrast to the standard interpretation of the origins of economics out of the secular European Enlightenment of the 18th century, the transition in thinking that we rightly identify with Adam Smith and his contemporaries and followers, which gave us economics as we now know it, was powerfully influenced by then-controversial changes in religious belief in the English-speaking Protestant world in which they lived: in particular, key aspects of the movement away from orthodox Calvinism. Further, those at-the-outset influences of religious thinking not only fostered the subsequent spread of Smithian thinking, especially in America, but shaped the course of its reception. The ultimate result was a variety of fundamental resonances between economic thinking and religious thinking that continue to influence our public discussion of economic issues, and our public debate over economic policy, today.