Jacob Viner’s scientific contributions

... (Bayle 1704(Bayle [1705: 600) While necessary, this enlightened behaviour is not in fact a sufficient condition for a peaceful social life. Nicole and Domat stress that this attitude and an enduring social order cannot be achieved without the help of bonds of a different kind, the most important of which being the rules of propriety and honour, religion and, above all, the political order ("ordre politique"), that is, a very strong political organization of society implying highly differentiated and stratified estates of the realm and inequality between men (on all these points see, for example, Taveneaux 1965;Viner 1978;Faccarello [1986Faccarello [ ] 19992006). Nicole's and Domat's conception of society is not market-based and the basic social link is still political and moral. ...

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Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646-1714)

... (Bayle 1705, 600) While necessary, however, enlightened behaviour is still not a sufficient condition for a peaceful social life. Nicole and Domat stress that this attitude and an enduring social order cannot be achieved without the help of bonds of a different kind, the most important of which are the rules of propriety and honour, religion and above all the "political order", that is, a very strong political organisation of society involving differentiated and stratified estates (the traditional three estates of the realm) and inequality between men (on all these points see, for example , Taveneaux 1965;Viner 1978;Faccarello (1986). In Nicole and Domat, the basic social link is still political and moral. ...

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Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundation of Laissez-faire

... Among economists, many have been interested in it. For example, Jacob Viner (1978) discussed the Weber hypothesis in one of five chapters on religion which were edited and published posthumously. Viner points out that Weber himself freely acknowledged that there were many predecessors to his writings which remarked on a close historical association between Protestantism and capitalism. ...

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The New Economics of Religion