Political Economy As Natural Theology Smith, Malthus and Their Followers

Oslington tells the story of natural theology shaping political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasising continuing significance of theological issues for the discipline of economics. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Richard Whately, and William Whewell, extended the British scientific natur

About the author

Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics and Dean of Business at Alphacrucis College in Sydney, Australia. He previously held a joint appointment as Professor in the Schools of Business and Theology at Australian Catholic University, and before that Associate Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, along with visiting positions at the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Regent College Vancouver and Princeton Theological Seminary and University. He is also an honorary Research Professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra.

Summary

Oslington tells the story of natural theology shaping political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasising continuing significance of theological issues for the discipline of economics. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Richard Whately, and William Whewell, extended the British scientific natur

Product details

• Authors: Paul (Australian Catholic University) Oslington, Oslington Paul, Paul Oslington
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780367865023
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86502-3
• Pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Religious issues & debates, Political Economy, Economic theory and philosophy, Religious issues and debates, history of economic thought, Richard Whately, Muslim world, 18th Century Scotland, Common Language, science and religion interaction, JS Mill, Common grace, Wider Issues, Invisible Hand Passage, East India College, British Enlightenment philosophy, religious influence on economics, design argument, Smith’s System, theology shaping economic policy debates, economic methodology history, theodicy in social sciences, Ricardian Political Economy, Christian Political Economy, Adequate Theodicy, Smith’s Invisible Hand, Introductory Economics Textbooks, Bridgewater Treatise, Augustinian theodicy, 18th Century Political Economy, Paley’s Design Argument, Drummond Chair