Third Party Moral Enforcement: The Rise and Decline of Christian Confession
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Moral codes are produced and enforced by more or less specialized means and are subject to standard economic forces. This paper argues that the intermediary rolKeywords
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