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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...
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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered...
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This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …
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We examine the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism, differentiating between level- and rate …-American terrorism. These findings are further corroborated by system-level time-series evidence. We argue that a higher level of market-capitalism … a market economy. These interest groups deliberately target the U.S. as the main proponent of modern capitalism …
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Capitalism is not the only form of economy. Alternative economies - people's economies - exist in which human needs and … capitalism. The paper aims to contribute to the discourse on alternatives to capitalism. We go about by first examining recent … works dealing with the issue of alternatives to capitalism (and neoliberalism). We define "alternative" as an on …
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Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with … genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are …
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The starting point of our research is Piketty (2014) who follows Marx by asserting that rents are merely one of the forms of profits, therefore they do not require separate conceptual analysis and statistical separation. Speaking of the generation of rents (as a distinctly different mechanism...
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the Great Recession, what visions they develop about future development of capitalism and to which extent these different …
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