After a long period of economic neglect of religion, recent articles in leading economics journals have been finding that religion has long played a surprisingly large role in influencing levels of economic development. Moving forward in the tradition of Max Weber, these articles find that...

This article evaluates EU policies on public services - particularly public network services - from the citizens' point of view. It is first argued that citizens´ perceptions about these services are important because they are essential for quality of life, but also because they exhibit...