Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious … (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …