Robert H. Nelson

Robert H. Nelson is a professor of environmental policy at the University of Maryland and the author of numerous books, including The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environ­mental Religion in Contemporary America (Penn State, 2010). He is also a senior fellow at the Independent Institute. His SSRN page is here.

In The New Atlantis

The Secular Religions of Progress

Number 39 ~ Summer 2013

Books

The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environ­mental Religion (Penn State, 2010)

Private Neighborhoods And the Transformation of Local Government (Urban Institute Press, 2005)

Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (Penn State, 2002)

Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991)