https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/22539 2019-09-26T14:51:27Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22539/ An Economist’s Guide to Heaven Muller, Nick Gray, Jo Anna Stone, Joe A1 - General Economics This paper is the first to offer an economic model of God and humanity as optimizing agents in the context of concrete belief archetypes (religious ‘contracts’) in Judeo-Christian theology. Data support the model’s unique predictions, despite their otherwise counterintuitive, unlikely nature. For example, the model requires that in one belief archetype, ‘good works’ not increase with strength of faith, as one might otherwise expect, and that what appears may be God’s dominant contract precisely balances divine penalties for reneging on promises with incentives to seek divine ‘gifts’—an equivalence supported in the data. 2010-03 MPRA Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22539/1/MPRA_paper_22539.pdf Muller, Nick and Gray, Jo Anna and Stone, Joe (2010): An Economist’s Guide to Heaven. en info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage