| | | | PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, N 2 (30), 2009 | | | | ECONOMICS AND RELIGION | | | Raskov D. E.
Assistant professor, Chair of Economic Theory, Department of Economics, St.Petersburg State University; Candidate of Science (Economics)
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| | | The article describes economic discussions in the commune of old believers – wanderers in pre-revolutionary Russia, analyzes the evolution of their ideas on property and capital. The author shows that religious rejection of money, property, and trade was combined with the commune members with the search of compromises. The key point of this discussion was the so-called “Controversy over the steam mill,” which took place at the beginning of the XX c. The article presents an interpretation of how capitalist type of entrepreneurship emerged in the most radical old believers’ milieu | | Key words: property, old believers - wanderers, capital, religious ethics, old believers` literature, secularization, "monastic effect" | |
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