This paper incorporates the phenomenon of tolerance, as the ability to accept diversity, into an economic analysis …, tolerance is associated with the different weight that agents attribute to their own nature and to the institutional parameters … influence descendants’ predisposition to tolerance depend on both institutional factors, where behaviour is imposed by rules …

We propose an evolutionary game to analyse the dynamics of tolerance among heterogeneous economic agents. We show that …: (i) intolerance is much more persistent than tolerance; (ii) a fully tolerant society assures prosperity; (iii) cultural …