Item Detail
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18804
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English
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Club Mormon : Free-Riders, Monitoring, and Exclusion in the LDS Church
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Rationality & Society
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2007
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19
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no.4
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395-424
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The Mormon Church is best understood as a club, in the economic sense of the term. It succeeds, in part, because it identifies and selectively rewards high contributors, thereby limiting free-riding and producing large religious benefits for its members. First, it offers a menu of club goods of varying excludability, with the most valued goods excluded from less-committed members. Second, to enforce this menu, it actively monitors its members using a sophisticated administrative structure.
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