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| Author: | Cassone, A. Marchese, C. |
| Title: | The economics of religious indulgences |
| Journal: | Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
1999 : OCT, VOL. 155:3, p. 429-442 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS RELIGION ECONOMIC THEORY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The Catholic Church is modeled here as a heterogeneous club managed by a specialized agency that pursues the enlargement of the club within given constraints. Religious indulgence induce the self selection of members, based on their attitudes towards risk. In fiscal and criminal law there are institutions that parallel religious indulgences. |
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