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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history ; a comment on Becker and Woessmann

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 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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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2007

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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610049

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317061

Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of Protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: The quarterly journal of economics 124 (2009) 2, pp. 531-596

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

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Pre-colonial warfare and long-run development in india

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