Economics as Religion : From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond

In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America.

Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying Samuelsonian and Chicagoan economics is not a put-down.

It is a way of seeing the rhetoric of fundamental belief what has been called "vision.""