#1103 Paul Seabright - The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Paul Sebright. He is British professor of economics in the Industrial Economics Institute and Toulouse School of Economics at the University of Toulouse in France. And today we're going to talk about his book, The Divine Economy, How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People.
So Dr. Siebright, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you. It's a great pleasure for me as well.
So uh how did you connect economics to the study of religion and religious institutions? What led you there? Oh, it's a long story. Um I've been interested in economic institutions of different kinds for years and years, and I've been particularly interested in seeing the economic aspects of many different kinds of institutions that we don't necessarily think of that way.
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