Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result …, they miss the role of cultural values in either supporting the persistence of or inducing change in the economic and … cultural transmission plays in reinforcing institutional evolution toward either theocratic or secular states. We extend the …