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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481673
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167200
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be …
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places … be interested in their history at all. …
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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. It was from this point in time that wage labour slowly came into being and later on developed more broadly. At first, state regulations were...
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced … leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the …
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Was Weber wrong? A human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
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