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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012

speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …

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Secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 2015

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...

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

rights ; religion …

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The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Per Capita Income

Dobler, Constanze - 2010

Despite the many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...

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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics

Gershman, Boris - 2016

This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture,...

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The rise and fall of enforcement institutions : an example of religion and secularism

Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011

less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …

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Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations within Affiliated Populations

Oxley, Jonathan - 2022

Religious aid and development charities are quite numerous in the United States. However, it is unclear what the long-run economic and cultural impacts of religious philanthropy are within the recipient nation's affiliated population. I explore this question through descriptive methods by...

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DIALOGO — Religion and Society : Agreements & Controversies

Mirea, Ruxandra - 2017

Religion is the most paradox, intriguing and social active factor in the world history since the beginning of human … society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always … influence over Society is been done by and through Religion. In this case, is Religion a threat for human evolution as seen by …

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The State, Toleration, and Religious Freedom

Johnson, Noel D. - 2018

This paper offers a novel account of the rise of religious freedom. Religious and political power have been bound together since pre-history. As a consequence, there was an absence of religious freedom throughout most of history. Even when religious dissidents were not being persecuted for their...

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Examining the Role of Religion, the Economy, and Xenophobia as Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Erkoc, Taptuk Emre - 2019

This research focuses on the determinants of declining democracy values in the world using recently available data. By doing so, factors that are expected to be correlated with declining democratic values are illuminated and discussed based on formulated hypotheses. This paper utilises...

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