Laurence Robert Iannaccone ( ; born May 24, 1954) is a
Professor
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of
Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
at
Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics
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,
Orange County, California
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. Before moving to Chapman in 2009 he was a Koch Professor of Economics at
George Mason University. He has established "Religion, Economics, and Culture", an interdisciplinary "Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture" (ASREC), and a new "Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion" (CESR). He is currently working on two books on the
economics of religion The economics of religion concerns both the application of the techniques of economics to the study of religion and the relationship between economic and religious behaviours. Contemporary writers on the subject trace it back to Adam Smith (1776). ...
.
[Argyros School of Business and Economics Page.]
/ref> He is considered one of the pioneers of the field, and one of its most staunch advocates.University of Chicago
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See also
*Eli Berman
Eli Berman (born 1960) is the Research Director for International Security Studies at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and since 2010 a Professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his wor ...
References
Further reading
* David Lehman, ''Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion'', chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner
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(ed.) ''The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion'', John Wiley and Sons, 2010,
External links
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture
21st-century American economists
Living people
1954 births
George Mason University faculty
Cultural economics
Cultural economists
Chapman University faculty
University of Chicago alumni
Religion academics
Economy and religion
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