An extant literature rooted in Iannaconne’s club-theoretic approach, advances a social insurance channel via which financial crises lead to increases in religious intensity defined to include religious affiliation and participation. Since variation in religious intensity has implications for;...

In contrast to the extant club-theoretic literature on religiously motivated terrorism, this paper articulates a theory of violent extremist religious sects (VERSs) that explicitly incorporates a supernatural motive for religiosity. This approach is in deference to the widely acknowledged...

Six themes for teaching macroeconomics at the intermediate college level are presented with recommendations for improvement that are based on a conference held at Miami University of Ohio in the fall of 1994.