The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an … populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …

variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church donations and …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …