This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

Hans Pohl, Wilhelm Treue (Herausgeber): Die Frau in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Referate und Diskussionsbeiträge des 8. Wissenschaftlichen Symposiums der Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte am 8. und 9. Dezember 1983 in Essen. (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Beiheft 35.) Franz...