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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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Protest, reform and revolution
Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen - 1969
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Reformation and reallocation : religious and secular economic activity in early modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide; Dittmar, Jeremiah; Yuchtman, Noam - 2016
The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...
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Reformation and Reallocation : Religious and Secular Economic Activity in Early Modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide - 2017
The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965641
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A Time to Print, a Time to Reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142397
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A time to print, a time to reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023948
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Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test of the Role of Printing in the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 2, pp. 270-286
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper seeks to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. I test this theory by analyzing data on the spread of the press and the Reformation at...
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Printing and Protestants: reforming the economics of the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148026
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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. …
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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 …
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