arbiter
JournalsPricingAccount

Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism

Maria Pia Paganelli

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology2023https://doi.org/10.1108/s0743-41542023000041a003book-chapter
ABDC C
Weight
0.26

What the paper says

Adam Smith sees religion both as having a useful and a dangerous role. People create gods to explain what they do not understand and appease their desire of justice when human justice is perceived to fail. These are socially useful functions of religion. But when religion is used as a political tool and is used for state capture purposes, then it becomes a dangerous and destructive force in society.

Open paper page →

Cite this paper

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/s0743-41542023000041a003

Or copy a formatted citation

@article{maria2023,
  title        = {{Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism}},
  author       = {Maria Pia Paganelli},
  journal      = {Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology},
  year         = {2023},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/s0743-41542023000041a003},
}

Paste directly into BibTeX, Zotero, or your reference manager.

Flag this paper

Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism

Flags are reviewed by the Arbiter methodology team within 5 business days.

Evidence weight

0.26

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00
M · momentum0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.