economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in …-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. Her second book is about “Charitable Credit: the Monti di Pietà, Franciscan Economic Ethics and Poor Relief …, especially financial and banking history as well as methodology, material culture and the history of rituals. Martin Lutz is a …

This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while … other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper … processes on their overall development. We argue that insight into the development-constraining attributes of African culture …