Taylor
This master thesis deals with the relationship between economic and religious thought in the seventeenth century. More specifically, it examines a thesis based on the work of the Canadian political philosopher Charles Taylor (b. 1931). This ‘Taylor thesis’, in short, is that the coming to be of economics as a science at the end of the eighteenth century was prepared to a significant extent by innovations in seventeenth-century economic thought which, in turn, were considerably influenced by changes within Christian thought. So Taylor suggests a connection, be it an indirect one, between seventeenth-century religious thought and the emergence of economics as a science. As we will see, this connection pertains to new views of divine providence in the economic realm.
Joost W. Hengstmengel, The role of divine providence in 17th-century economic thought (master thesis Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics)
