This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of quantitative world systems theory for two dimensions of development (human development, income redistribution) on a global scale and on the level of the European regions and tries to confront the basic pro-globalist assumptions of...