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SOME FUNDAMENTAL PUZZLES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY/DEVELOPMENT
North, Douglass C. - EconWPA - 1995
In this essay I would like to confront a number of fundamental puzzles in economic history/development--puzzles that go to the heart of the nature of economic change. They can be broadly classified under two general headings: how to account for the uneven and erratic pattern of both historical...
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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?
Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2005
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...
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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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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
the industrialized world in the last two centuries. Then, we explicitly compare the two types of expropriation (mortality …
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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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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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
least conceal the real issues of the future migration processes. An analysis of world population growth trends shows that …
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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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