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, Christianity divided into Roman Catholicism and Protestantisms, and Islam) have successively revealed the nature of accounting to …
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Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this...
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Since the early 1750's economists have elaborate two approaches in order to deal with economic history: a stage theory and a theory of continuing, quantitative growth. J. Schumpeter argued forcibly in favour of the development approach while N. Georgescu-Roegen endorsed the Schumpeterian...
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Islam. Islamic law is not liberal. This explains why, in general, Muslin countries are generally not free. Colonisation … twentieth century was not just the century of Westernisation. It was also the century of the revival of Islam. The article … thesis. Therefore, there is a dependency on the past and on an imagined future. Islam acts, like yesterday, on the world of …
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parce qu'il a permis de reconnaître les libertés et les droits individuels (1). Il montre, ensuite, que l'islam comme … religion y a été moins favorable parce que l'interprétation de la parole du prophète qui a été retenue et son origine politique …
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law was of great importance, European colonisation, and the contemporary era with its movement towards a revival of Islam … just the century of Westernisation. It was also the century of the revival of Islam. The article concludes that the history … is a dependency on the past and on an imagined future. Islam acts, like yesterday, on the world of institutional …
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The dataset "Enqute Mode de Vie des Franais" is the first opportunity to measure the impact of religion and religiosity … assist to offices. Culture is not investigated only through the impact of religion on fertility. Indeed, I explore the …
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their own religion is dominant, while Protestants are also more satisfied when Catholics dominate. The generic positive … spillover effect of others' religion is not explained by social capital, crime, or trust. …
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This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion does insure against some adverse life events. All denominations suffer … results do not seem to come about from the endogeneity of religion. These patterns in subjective well-being correspond to data …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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