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Title: Sergey Bulgakov and the Spirit of Capitalism (Critical Essay)
Author : Journal of Markets & Morality
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 242 KB

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Bulgakov and "Underdeveloped" Orthodox Thinking Until very recently the dominant Western view, as it was established by Richard Pipes, for instance, on Eastern Christianity and especially its Russian version was that it has been a "servant of the state." (2) The emerging libertarian movement in ex-Communist Europe, especially after the mid-1980s, seemed to confirm this interpretation by its reviews of the history of Orthodox countries' market reforms: They proceeded amidst stronger political hesitation in Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, and Georgia than in any of the region's Catholic countries, such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia. Such interpretation has had a concurring political echo: I recall a senior NATO officer and advisor publicly arguing, in 1996, in Slovenia, that the actual limits of "Atlantic cooperation" and the EU were marked by the roofs of Catholic and Protestant churches in the landscape. In the early 1990s, the very publication of Michael Novak's The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism highlighted the need for a similar reflection on Orthodox ethics. (3) The essay published here is evidence that at the turn of the century Russian Orthodox scholars and historians were profoundly interested in the relationships between Orthodox morality and markets.