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Why Churches Need Free-riders: Religious Capital Formation and Religious Group Survival
McBride, Michael - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2007
According to existing theory, religion thrives when groups overcome the free-rider problem in the production of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977963
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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research
Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003
This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to …. This survey analyzes the economic consequences of religion, the two-way interrelationship between religious and economic … in economic development. Changes in belief systems, which in many cases will be forms of religion, also can significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118941
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Economic and Religious Choice: A Case-Study from Early Christian Communities
Gotsis, George; Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
our attempt to employ economic theories of religion, we are in a position to better assess the efficiency of early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260304
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How religious status shapes psychological well-being: Cultural consonance as a measure of subcultural status among Brazilian Pentecostals
François Dengah, H.J. - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 18-25
Research on subjective social status has long recognized that individuals occupy multiple social hierarchies, with socioeconomic status (SES) being but one. The issue, as such, has been to identify culturally meaningful measures of social status. Through cognitive anthropological theory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042312
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Philosophical and spiritual perspectives on decent work
Peccoud, Dominique - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Reflects on the values behind the ILO's Decent Work Agenda and provides a forum for contributors from various humanistic, philosophical, spiritual and religious traditions to express their views on the significance of work at all levels of society, from the individual person to the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681389
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Switching Costs, Firm Size, and Market Structure
Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005
In many markets, homogenous goods and services are sold both by large global frms and small local frms. Surprisingly, the large frms charge, often substantially, higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffee shops. This paper provides a parsimonious model that can account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756601
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Switching Costs, Firm Size, and Market Structure
Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2005
In many markets homogenous goods are sold both by large global firms ("chain stores") and small local firms. Surprisingly, chain stores often charge higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffe shops. We provide a simple model that can account for these pricing patterns. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005812706
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Religious Capital and Religious Rewards: A Study in the Economics of Religious Life
Flere, Sergej - In: Panoeconomicus 59 (2012) 1, pp. 117-127
Religious life is studied by way suggested by the rational choice theory and the religious capital theory. The basic contentions of the theory on the nature of religious life having to do with an exchange upon a religious market, by firms offering compensators and rewards, and consumers, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651746
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A Bayesian model of religious conversion
Kumar, Vikas - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 2, pp. 1163-1171
The Economics of Religion literature is of two minds on whether conversion is more likely to occur between close or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634204
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A Theoretical Framework for Engaging with Religion in Development Projects
Butt, Atif Ikram - In: Journal of Developing Societies 30 (2014) 3, pp. 323-341
In academic debates and at practical level too, there is a degree of polarization between those who view religion … religion, which could bring the rationalist and post-development discourses closer, can better help development practitioners … institutions and practitioners for the evaluation of their programs and polices of engagement with religion and religious actors …
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