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Deutungshoheit der Religionen? Weltanschauung und Wirtschaft im Horizont globaler Institutionen und in Auseinandersetzung mit der Ethik von Eilert Herms (Reflections on the Interre...
Munzinger, Andre - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 35-50
Das Verhaeltnis von Wirtschaft und Religion ist umstritten. Angesichts globalisierter Interdependenzen und der … Position, indem er Religion als fundamentalanthropologische, unhintergehbare Groesse jeder Ordnungstheorie postuliert. In … insights on the nature of religious experience. We examine his work and show how from his theory of religion he develops a …
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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Chapter 21. Religion, Culture, and Development
Aldashev, Gani; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 587-631). 2014
role of religion in human societies from a development economics perspective. We start by reviewing the contributions that … directly and through the effect of religion on institutions. Next, we summarize the literature that considers adherence to and … chooses to influence the contents of religion and the intensity of its dogmas. More precisely, we consider situations in which …
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Does a Protestant work ethic exist? Evidence from the well-being effect of unemployment
van Hoorn, André; Maseland, Robbert - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 1-12
Evidence on Weber's original thesis on a Protestant work ethic is ambiguous and relies on questionable measures of work attitudes. We test the relation between Protestantism and work attitudes using a novel method, operationalizing work ethic as the effect of unemployment on individuals’...
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‘Unfinished business’: Historic complementarities, political competition and ethnic violence in Gujarat
Jha, Saumitra - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 104 (2014) C, pp. 18-36
I examine how the historical legacies of inter-ethnic complementarity and competition interact with contemporary electoral competition in shaping patterns of ethnic violence. Using local comparisons within Gujarat, a single Indian state known for both its non-violent local traditions and for...
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Zur Ethik des islamischen Finanzmarktes (On the Ethics of the Islamic Financial Market)
Leins, Stefan - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 66-75
Islamic Banking ist in aller Munde. Waehrend sich OEkonomen mit den finanztechnischen und Juristen mit den religioes-rechtlichen Eigenheiten des islamischen Finanzmarktes auseinander setzen, soll Islamic Banking hier aus wirtschaftsethischer Perspektive betrachtet werden. Anhand empirischer...
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Foreign direct investment : the role of institutional and cultural determinants
Lucke, Navina; Eichler, Stefan - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 10/12, pp. 934-956
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Religion and sanitation practices
Adukia, Anjali; Alsan, Marcella; Goldhaber-Fiebert, … - 2020
have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation …-representative data sets from India. Across all three data sets, the unconditional religion-specific gap in latrine ownership and latrine …. Further, the estimates do not show evidence of religion-specific differences in other sanitation practices, such as …
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Publishing ideas: the factors determining the number of book titles
Leeuwen, Bas van; Plopeanu, Aurelian-Petruş; … - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 68 (2018) 3, pp. 443-466
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