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The biological and cultural profile of mate has affected its global expansion, unlike other plants native to the Americas, such as cacao and maize. ....
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone had the right to pursue ‘life, liberty, and estate,’ which implied true happiness could be found this side of the afterlife; continued when Adam Smith explained markets followed an Invisible Hand, which made divine will irrelevant to economics; and concluded when Jeremy Bentham wrote that happiness was a surplus of pleasure over pain, which made ethics calculable. Modern economics has been built on insights into property rights, incentives, and utility, and economics and religion have had little to say to each other ever since the Enlightenment. One might ask whether that matters. Astronomers, after all, do their job without reading Genesis. But in the case of economics things are different. The advances of economics inspire awe, but not affection, and from an early stage the accolades earned for amassing mat ....