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Adopting a new religion: The case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany
Cantoni, Davide - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008926997
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With … figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely …. Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic development. Instrumental variables estimates …
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
Many theories, most famously Max Webers essay on the Protestant ethic, have hypothesized that Protestantism should have … population figures in a dataset comprising 272 cities in the years 13001900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic … small sample size. In addition, Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547482
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
Richardson, Gary; McBride, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...
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Persistent Antimarket Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust
Grosfeld, Irena; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Zhuravskaya, … - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 3, pp. 189-226
We estimate long-term effects of Jewish presence in Europe before World War II, using discontinuity at the border of the "Pale of Settlement" area where Jews were allowed to live in the Russian Empire. Current residents of the Pale have lower support for market, and are less entrepreneurial but...
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Married to Intolerance: Attitudes toward Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 79-85
attitudes persisted in Germany during the twentieth century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes …
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The political economy of mass printing: Legitimacy and technological change in the Ottoman Empire
Coşgel, Metin M.; Miceli, Thomas J.; Rubin, Jared - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 357-371
New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052846
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Free economy in a Jewish perspective.
Calance, Madalina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Science and rationality always excluded religion. However, in his last work, The Fatal Conceit, the great economist Friedrich von Hayek stated that religion has been one of the enduring pillars of the free market economy, through a consistent heritage of practices and beliefs. By making some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108604
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Elite Influence? Religion, Economics, and the Rise of the Nazis
Spenkuch, Jörg; Tillmann, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Adolf Hitler's seizure of power was one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century. Yet, our understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion played an important role in the Nazi party's electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108831
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Elite Influence? Religion, Economics, and the Rise of the Nazis
Spenkuch, Jörg; Tillmann, Philipp - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Adolf Hitler's seizure of power was one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century. Yet, our understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion played an important role in the Nazi party's electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164051