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Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020
We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …-century Prussia we reject Weber’s suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an “ascetic compulsion to save”. Moreover, we find that …
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Weber revisited: The protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is … reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we find that income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290330
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Missionaries and Female Empowerment in Colonial Uganda: New Evidence from Protestant Marriage Registers, 1880-1945
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix - 2014
Protestant missionaries have recently been praised for their comparatively benign features concerning female education in Africa. Using a new dataset of 5,212 Protestant brides born between 1880 and 1945 from urban and rural Uganda, this paper offers a first pass at analyzing empirically the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624364
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From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469562
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From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469768
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427495
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With … figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely …. Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic development. Instrumental variables estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427659
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The protestant fiscal ethic: Religious confession and Euro skepticism in Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Krapf, Matthias - 2015
During the European sovereign debt crisis, most countries that ran into fiscal trouble had Catholic majorities, whereas countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on theeuro differ between Protestants and Non-Protestants,...
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Did Protestantism Promote Economic Prosperity via Higher Human Capital?
Edwards, Jeremy - 2017
This paper investigates the Becker-Woessmann (2009) argument that Protestants were more prosperous in nineteenth-century Prussia because they were more literate, a version of the Weber thesis, and shows that it cannot be sustained. The econometric analysis on which Becker and Woessman based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744952
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Martin Luthers Wirtschaftsethik: Aufbruch zum Europäischen Sonderweg?
Engel, Gerhard - 2017
Max Weber schrieb vor fast 100 Jahren den besonderen ökonomischen Erfolg Europas der protestantischen Arbeitsethik zu. Der 500. Jahrestag der Reformation gibt Anlass, seine These in größeren Zusammenhängen zu diskutieren. Zum einen zeigen konkurrierende Erklärungsansätze, dass geologische,...
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