Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 5,136
Cover Image
The Impact of Institutions, Culture, and Religion on Per Capita Income
Dobler, Constanze - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, … - 2009
Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256250
Cover Image
Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?
Blum, U.; Dudley, L. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2001
Ethic, Weber suggested an alternative explanation based on culture. Here, a theoretical model confirms that a small change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729526
Cover Image
Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?
BLUM, Ulrich; DUDLEY, Leonard - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2001
Ethic, Weber suggested an alternative explanation based on culture. Here, a theoretical model confirms that a small change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729672
Cover Image
Deutungshoheit der Religionen? Weltanschauung und Wirtschaft im Horizont globaler Institutionen und in Auseinandersetzung mit der Ethik von Eilert Herms (Reflections on the Interre...
Munzinger, Andre - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 35-50
Das Verhaeltnis von Wirtschaft und Religion ist umstritten. Angesichts globalisierter Interdependenzen und der … Position, indem er Religion als fundamentalanthropologische, unhintergehbare Groesse jeder Ordnungstheorie postuliert. In … insights on the nature of religious experience. We examine his work and show how from his theory of religion he develops a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683676
Cover Image
African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767
Cover Image
Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123614
Cover Image
Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Akkemik, K. Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132046
Cover Image
Skewed Norms under Peer Pressure: Formation and Collapse
Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014
This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079263
Cover Image
Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566435
Cover Image
Religion and polygamy : evidence from the livingstonia mission in Malawi
Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
practicing other religions (Islam and other) or no religion, Christian females are indeed less likely to form polygynous unions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929172