In this paper, we show, using a panel of developed countries, that there is a long-run negative association between church attendance and total factor productivity (TFP) with predictive causality running from declining church attendance to increasing factor productivity. According to our...

How to address human rights is a forever important issue of political economics. In expanding that view, it is important to know that whether the decision has a firm ground. We humans say that every decision should be addressed in the rational point view of human rights. And to support that,...

This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...