Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … (i) determined the economic aspects of the religious doctrine upon which Islam was formed, and (ii) shaped its subsequent … had to remain within limits for Islam to persist. This was instituted via restrictions on physical capital accumulation …

This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical …. Islam was such a movement. In line with this conjecture, we utilize anthropological information on precolonial traits of … with a strong belief in a moralizing God. -- Religion ; Islam ; Geography ; Redistribution ; Land Inequality ; Africa …

-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …