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AN ESTIMATE OF AVERAGE INCOME AND INEQUALITY IN BYZANTIUM AROUND YEAR 1000

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using recent economic statistics from the peak period of Byzantine political and economic influence, we estimate the average income around the year 1000 to have been about 6 nomismata per capita per annum. This is then translated into current prices using two independent methods. They both yield...

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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden

Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting parameters to match observed rates of correlation...

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Denominational Schism: An Economic Perspective

Karacuka, Mehmet; Leroch, Martin - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we present an economic model contributing to the explanation of religious schism, a topic mostly dealt with in the fields of sociology and psychology so far. The main idea is to see religious groups as networks. These networks may serve as a device for exchanging information about...

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Religion

Rossi, Maximo; Rossi, Ianina - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper is a first attempt to measure and explain, from an economic perspective, the religious behavior of uruguayans (women in this stage), and compare the results with those obtained for some Latin American and developed countries. In this first stage, the efforts were concentrated...

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DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGY AND INCOME INEQUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Milanovic, Branko; Gradstein, Mark; Ying, Yvonne - EconWPA - 2003

/mixed Christian and societies without a dominant religion. In addition, we find a strong evidence that, controlling for the level of …

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The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

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Towards a new EU policy for the Mediterranean South? Culture, migration and the de-velopment of social indicators in a wider Europe. Conference Paper, The European Union Neighbourh...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

Both in demographic as well as in sociological terms, much of West European fears about East European migration at least conceal the real issues of the future migration processes. An analysis of world population growth trends shows that Africa, West Asia and Southeast-Asia become the real future...

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Application of Economic Concepts on Religious Behavior

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

This survey gathers the current state of research activity on the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. The …

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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to …. This survey analyzes the economic consequences of religion, the two-way interrelationship between religious and economic … in economic development. Changes in belief systems, which in many cases will be forms of religion, also can significantly …

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF OSUMENYI TOWN(NNEWI SOUTH LGA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

THIS PAPER ENUNERATES THE SEQUENTIAL HISTORIC ORIGIN OF OSUMENYI VILLAGE AND ITS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC PRACTICES. IN OTHERWORDS, THE PAPER WILL HELP TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN OSUMENYI'S HISTORY. THE PAPER RECOMMENDS THE...

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