The economic approach to religion assumes the same people who are treated as rational in standard models of consumption are the religious majority, so it is statistically and methodologically inconsistent for economists to treat religious behavior as irrational.

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Speaker

Larry Iannaccone

Evidence Quote

the first thing to recognize about religious people is that they constitute a majority of almost every population in human history

Source

The Economics of Religion with Larry Iannaccone 10/9/2006EconTalk
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