The minor point at the end regarding the definition of "moralizing" reminds me of The Physician and the Priest. http://www.jhuger.com/the-physician-and-the-pri

The minor point at the end regarding the definition of "moralizing" reminds me of The Physician and the Priest. http://www.jhuger.com/the-physician-and-the-priest http://www.jhuger.com/the-physician-and-the-priest Things which had a visible adverse effect on these early societies tended to be encoded in religion. Slingerland's interpretation of mucking with the river as a moral hazard as opposed to a random taboo is exactly the kind of things the Physician came to find.