This article provides an overview of the recent literature relevant to the study of the relation between economics and religion. The paper also appeals to the critical review on the implications of religious markets and church-state relation. The study argues that economic development depress...

Social capital is a topical concept in economic development. The idea is that differential economic success can be explained in terms of differences in various social variables that are called social capital. My criticism is that this hypothesis, as it stands now, is too vague to help us...