This document discusses the relationship between morality and capitalism. It argues that morality is necessary to allow gains from trade by reducing opportunistic behavior and transaction costs. However, morality cannot be enforced by states, institutions or organizations, but rather emerges from local traditions through moral emotions like shame and guilt. The document examines how different societies, like agrarian civilizations and Western Christianity, developed different material and cosmological beliefs that shaped their economic systems and transactions costs. It also discusses how concepts of human nature, individualism, and community have changed over time and influenced the rise of capitalism in the West.
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adopt a functionalist view and understand religion as what grounds us by
teaching us what the world is, and what our r6le in the world is, then it
becomes obvious that traditional religions are fulfilling this role less and
less, because that function is being supplanted-or overwhelmed-by
other belief-systems and value-systems. Today the most powerful alterna-
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system has become consumerism. Their academic offspring is economics,
probably the most influential of the "social sciences." In response, this
paper will argue that our present economic system should also be under-
stood as our religion, because it has come to fulfill a religious function for
us. The discipline of economics is less a science than the theology of that
religion, and its god, the Market, has become a vicious circle of ever-
increasing production and consumption by pretending to offer a secular
salvation. The collapse of communism-best understood as a capitalist
"heresy"-makes it more apparent that the Market is becoming the first
truly world religion, binding all corners of the globe more and more
tightly into a worldview and set of values whose religious role we over-
look only because we insist on seeing them as "secular."
So it is no coincidence that our time of ecological catastrophe also
happens to be a time of extraordinary challenge to more traditional
religions. Although it may offend our vanity, it is somewhat ludicrous to
think of conventional religious institutions as we know them today serving
David R. Loy is Professor in the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University, Chigasaki 253,
Japan (email: [email protected]).
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276 Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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The major religions are not yet moribund, but when they are not already
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so preoccupied with past problems and outmoded perspectives (e.g.,
pronatalism) that they are increasingly irrelevant (e.g., fundamentalism)
or trivialized (e.g., television evangelism). The result is that up to now they
have been unable to offer what is most needed, a meaningful challenge to
the aggressive proselytizing of market capitalism, which has already
become the most successful religion of all time, winning more converts
more quickly than any previous belief system or value-system in human
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adopt a functionalist view and understand religion as what grounds us by
teaching us what the world is, and what our r6le in the world is, then it
becomes obvious that traditional religions are fulfilling this role less and
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religion, and its god, the Market, has become a vicious circle of ever-
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salvation. The collapse of communism-best understood as a capitalist
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truly world religion, binding all corners of the globe more and more
tightly into a worldview and set of values whose religious role we over-
look only because we insist on seeing them as "secular."
So it is no coincidence that our time of ecological catastrophe also
happens to be a time of extraordinary challenge to more traditional
religions. Although it may offend our vanity, it is somewhat ludicrous to
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Japan (email: [email protected]).
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pronatalism) that they are increasingly irrelevant (e.g., fundamentalism)
or trivialized (e.g., television evangelism). The result is that up to now they
have been unable to offer what is most needed, a meaningful challenge to
the aggressive proselytizing of market capitalism, which has already
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history.
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2. ABSTRACT
This paper argues that morality is required to
allow the gains from trade to be reaped by
reducing the ‘policing’ type of transactions costs
involved in opportunistic behaviour.
But, as Hume emphasised neither God nor Reason
can justify any particular morality, the only
source of morality must be local traditions which
socialize children through the moral emotions of
shame and guilt.
Capitalism does require morality, but this cannot
be enforced by States, NGO’s or supra-national
insitutions.
CONT………
3. ABSTRACT
Concepts like Communalistics Ethics by
Agrarian Eurasian Civilisation &
Individualistic Ethics of Western
Christedom
Role of market,govt and civil society in
fostering globalisation
Role of morality in economic life
4. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
Morality is part of the institutional infrastructure
of a society.
This institutional infrastructure consists of
Informal constraints /restraints like cultural
norms (which encompass morality)
Formal constraints which are embodied in
particular and more purposeful
organizational structures. Formal rules
embrace the Common Law which forms a
spontaneous order which constrain human
behavior. ( Hayek)
5. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
HOMO ECONOMICS – RATIONLITY &
MOTIVATION FOR SELF INTEREST
Constraining means limiting self interest
Transaction cost – Cost of Relationship and is
influenced by societal institutions.
Culture is informal aspect of societal institution
Which control & influence human behavior.
Humans cope with environment change by
adapting the social norms to survive but animals
mutate to survive.
6. Social customs give to culture which is
transmitted to new members ( Children)
Routinised behavior for equilibrium in economics
is equivalent to ecological concept of social
norm.
When environment changes– old theories don’t
work & new adaptation process by hit & trial to
have equilibrium
Material belief
Cosmological belief
7. TYPES OF BELIEFS
Material belief
Ways of Making a living & beliefs
about the material world read
economy.It is more malleable .
Cosmological belief
Understanding the environment around
us and mankind’s place in it .It is less
malleable & hysteresis in nature.
8. TYPES OF BELIEFS
Different transaction cost
Efficiency of exchange & policing works of
economic dimensions varies.
9. EXAMPLES OF BELIEFS
Cost of finding trading partner – Material
belief
Enforcing an the agreement with him –
Cosmological belief
Knowledge asymmetries b/n principal &
agents leads to policing aspects of the
transaction cost.
10. CHANGING MATERIAL &
COSMOLOGICAL BELIEFS
It can be studied with respect to
HUMAN NATURE
AGRARIAN CIVILISATION
THE RISE OF THE WEST
11. ON HUMAN NATURE
It is set during the period of evolution ending with the
stone age.
Reciprocal Altruism part of basic human nature in the
stone age .
Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others.
Reciprocal altruism is not unconditional. Firstly the act of
altruism must give rise to a surplus of cooperation, in the
sense that the gains to the beneficiary must be
perceived to be meaningfully larger than the costs to the
benefactor. Secondly the act of altruism should be
reciprocated by the original beneficiary if the situation is
later reversed. Failure to do so will usually cause the
original benefactor to withdraw future acts of altruism.
12. ON HUMAN NATURE
A potential example of reciprocal altruism
is blood-sharing in the vampire bat, in
which bats feed regurgitated blood to
those who have not collected much blood
themselves knowing that they themselves
may someday benefit from this same
donation; Cheaters are remembered by
the colony and ousted from this
collaboration.
13. Gain from co-operation may be less than
that of cheating & free riders. It will be
mitigated by “tit for tat” game
Truck & Barter – Trading Instinct
14. AGRARIAN CIVILISATION
Power of sword,pen & plough well understood.
Restraint on anti-social action – A way of life
rather than religion
Moral emotion of shame & guilt is the driving
force
Cosmological belief is Communalist in nature
Merchants are considered as necessary evil
Material belief not conducive for economic
growth
15. Rise of the west
Change in cosmological & material belief
mediated by catholic church (6AD to 11AD)
Promoted cult individualism first in family affairs
and later in material relationship
Extolling virginity & preventing second marriage
to create single woman who can bequest to the
church
Preventing adoption of children,marriage
between close kins, widows to enrich the
churches monetarily
40 % familiies don’t have heirs and chief
beneficiaries are churches
16. Rise of the west
Extensive growth – per capita income
constant
Intensive growth – Increase in per capita
income
Smithian growth – Linkage of a new empire
Promethean growth – Linkage of a additional
resource
17. Rise of the west
Extensive legal & administrative procedures
Power of KING to power of gODF
From truck & barter to modern economic growth
and reduced suspicion on the merchants.
PAPAL revolution – Church entering into realm of
the kings.
From joint families and family values to guilt
based culture
18. Communalism vs individualism
Eurasian civilisation i.e the ethics of sinic
& the HINDU has remained distinctly
“communalistic” rather than
“Individualistic”.The HINDU ethics talks of
Out wardly individualism rather inwardly
individualism or modern individualism. EX-
Renouncing the world & becoming ascetic.
19. Samuel Huntingdon came up with the "Clash of
Civilizations" theory .He drew up a chart to show which
civlization has problems with another. These are the
civlizations included in the chart:
-Western Christendom, centered on Europe and North
America but also including Australia and New Zealand.
Whether Latin America and the former member states of
the Soviet Union are included, or are instead their own
separate civilizations, will be an important future
consideration for those regions, according to Huntington.
20. -The Orthodox world of Orthodox and/or Slavic Eastern
Europe and Russia.
-Latin America
-The Muslim world of the Middle East, North Africa,
Central Asia, the northwest of South Asia (Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and parts of India), Malaysia, Indonesia
-Hindu civilization, located chiefly in India, Nepal, and
culturally adhered to by the global diaspora
-The Sinic civilization of China, Korea, Vietnam,
Singapore, Taiwan, which includes the Chinese
diaspora, especially in relation to Southeast Asia.
21. -Latin America
-The Muslim world of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, the
northwest of South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of India),
Malaysia, Indonesia
-Hindu civilization, located chiefly in India, Nepal, and culturally
adhered to by the global diaspora
-The Sinic civilization of China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan,
which includes the Chinese diaspora, especially in relation to
Southeast Asia.
-Sub-Saharan Africa
22. -The Buddhist areas of Northern India, Nepal, Bhutan,
Mongolia, Kalmykia, Siberia, Myanmar, Thailand,
Cambodia, Laos and Tibet.
-Japan, considered an independent civilization
-Instead of belonging to one of "major" civilizations,
Ethiopia and Haiti are labeled as "lone" countries. Former
British colonies in the Caribbean are supposed to
constitute an independent civilization.
-Israel is identified as a non-Western state having rather
its own civilization.
________________________________________
23. SINIC CIVILISATION
Its central cosmological beliefs are
OPTIMISM
FAMILIALISM
BUREAUCRATIC AUTHORITARIANISM
NO ROOM FOR OUITWARD INDIVIDUALISM
ANCESTOR WORSHIP
HIERARCHY
RITUAL DEFERENCE
OBEDIENCE
RECIPROCITY
24. CHRISTIANITY
SHARES SPACE WITH ISLAM AND JUDAISM
Cosmological beliefs are
UNIVERSALITY
“ONE CANNOT CHOOSE HINDUISM BUT
BORN WITH IT”
“BUT YOU CAN CHOOSE CHRISTIANISM
,YOU NEED NOT BORN WITH IT”
CHRISTIANISM – Proselytize.( Conversion)
EGALITARIAN
25. CHRISTIANITY
Home aequalis – men are born equal
Asian - HOME hierarchicus – men are not
born equal
Liberty & equality based on individualism
26. Course of western individualism
Man is an individual in relation to GOD
St Augustines “City of GOD” vision of the
heavenly cities ( Garden of Eden,A fall leading to
the original sin & a day of judgement
Darwin’s “God was blind”
Nietzsche’s God is dead
Moral sensibilities serve across purpose that to
one man a morality is proved by its utility and to
another the utility refuted by him.
27. Moral abyss due to death of GOD which
further mutates in the form of marxism &
freudianism a more recently in the form of
eco-fundamentalism.
28. MARXISM
Looks to the past & future
Commodifiaction – class society and
conflicting material forces.
Earthly salvation by historical materialism.
30. Alasdair Macintyre
Contemporary western notion of self (
Cosmological Belief) has three contradicting
elements that are not compatible &
commensurable
Enlightenment – Stand apart from social
influence and mould as per their own
preferences
Evaluation by others –Standards are acquisitive
& competitive success.
Remaining religious & moral norms and open to
“invocation of values and success of habits of
the heart on the other on the other hand.
31. David Hume’s in “Treatise of Human
Nature” – Morality is essential to control
man’s self aggrandising instincts to garner
the gains from co-operation
Morality is based on tradition rather than
GOD or reason. It cements social fabrics
Japan adopting west’s material beliefs
without adopting cosmological beliefs.
Modernising without westernising
34. MARKET
Markets : The creation of the national public debt and
the Bank of England in the late 17th century contributed
to the rise of the merchantS and financiers in economic
power and societal states.
The traditional prohibition of interest was lifted, posing a
serious problem for the traditional value system.Money –
A means of Exchange not to increase at interest -
Aristotle
Independence and real property (real estate) were taken
to be the moral foundation for civic virtue and moral
personality.
Share are illusions based on fantasy - POCOCK
35. STATE
CIVIL ASSOCIATION :
State custodian of laws which did not
impose any societal goal but faciliator to
pursue their own ends.OAKESHOTT
ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
State manager of an enterprise seeking to
use the law for legislation of morality.
36. The state has come to be viewed as enterprise
association rather than a civil association (Greek view:
Communal ties).
The dissolution of communal ties, apart from
encouraging individualism, caused the prevalence of a
set of ideas and values which Dakeshott calls ‘anti-
individual’. These ideas and values protected those who,
by circumstance or temperament, were unable to look
after themselves in the new world of broken commercial
ties(through a large number of govt. welfare activities).
Preferance of secuity over liberty,solidarity to enterprise ,
equality to self determination.
37. The state seen as a civil association does not try
to legislate morality. The state seen as an
enterprise association displays both the domestic
concerns for social welfare and the desire to
export western values like ‘human rights’ and
democracy’ to the rest of the world. However,
the view of the state which seeks to combine
the market with various social demands is
antithetical to efficient globalization which
restricts itself to provision of public goods and
keeps away from the support of any system of
morality.
38. NGOS
Most are really pressure groups
International NGOs are altruistic-they may be said to promote an
international moral order and an international civil society.
The environmental NGOs, consumer NGOs, the Human rights NGOs,
the Health NGOs may be harming rather than helping, the worlds
most needy citizens by resisting growth prospects of
underdeveloped economies in the third world.
The ‘global Salvationists ’(NGOs) make the claim that globalization has
marginalised poor peoples and poor countries, are propagating ‘a
kind of ethical imperialism’. Instead of aiding globalization they are
promoting a global collectivism which includes the ‘ethical’
enterprise view of the state supported by Oakeshott.
39. Conclusions
At present, as in the past, morality is essential to constrain
opportunistic economic behavior of human beings in every society.
Capitalism does require moral behavior, But moral behavior cannot
be enforced by govts, NGOs or any supra-national institutions such
as WTO. In the non-western countries it is important to keep in tact
traditional mainsprings of morality, and never to undermine the
traditional institutions which ensure a morality system) in the name
of a universal western ethic which is trumpeted as a necessity for
effective globalization. It is possible for these countries to modernize
(i.e. adopt capitalism) without westernizing (i.e. accepting the
western brand of morality = its cosmological beliefs)