This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … (i) determined the economic aspects of the religious doctrine upon which Islam was formed, and (ii) shaped its subsequent … had to remain within limits for Islam to persist. This was instituted via restrictions on physical capital accumulation …

is more pronounced in countries where Islam is the source of legislation. Constitutions changed in only four Muslim …

Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …

- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …