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Believe or not believe: generalising the Azzi-Ehrenber model

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents an econornic model of consumer behaviour within a religious frarnework.The individual is defined as being religious SO, for him God exists with absolute certainty.We distinguish two separate aims of the individual: human welfare and spiritual welfare.Joint maximisation of these two targets subject to time and budgetary constraints yields a solution in which the optimal values of consumption and religiosity are obtained.Ailowance is also given to the compulsory payment of a religious tax.We show that the shape of the interchange curve between these two optimal values depends upon the relative shapes of the human welfare and spiritual welfare íünctions.

Source: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)

Authors: Javier Rodero, Pablo Brañas‐Garza, Adrian Gourlay, Alejandro V. Lorca Corróns

Language: Spanish

Topic: Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W141055251

FWCI: 1.256

Cites: 16

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10