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New publication: The Economics of Religion: A Review

Paul Seabright · 10 Aug 2026

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  1. I then draw on recent platform-economics models to reinterpret religious movements as platforms: organizations that facilitate and govern relationships—most notably communities—and appropriate a share of the value generated by these interactions.

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