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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 Reformation to reach a broader audience. I test this hypothesis by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148026
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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices actually hamper patent quality and innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258189
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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
capital, technology and trade to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109094
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The Protestant Ethic and Work: Micro Evidence from Contemporary Germany
Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Few theories in the social sciences have gained more widespread acceptance than Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism—despite a lack of conclusive empirical evidence. At the core of Weber’s theory lies a connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695061
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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
Anderson, R. Warren; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from...
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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
economic effects of the Reformation on the economic perfomance of European countries. Nearly all authors argued that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325674
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Il setificio meridionale tra età rivoluzionaria, decennio francese e restaurazione: dinamiche di mercato e nuovi assetti produttivi
Ciccolella, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article describes the structure of sericulture and silk industry in southern Italy before the commercial crisis of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period. Then, traces the different stages of the crisis, which lasted 25 years but had an uneven course. Finally, it describes the consequences...
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Determinants of Peace : A Cross-Country Analysis
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this study, we try to discover the variables susceptible to affect the peace. To arrive there, we made resort to the analysis in cross-sectional. We find that the institutional variables are auspicious to the peace, especially the political stability. The macroeconomic variables are, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108502
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Property rights and democratic values in Bronze Age and Archaic Greece
Kyriazis, Nicholas; Economou, Emmanouel; Marios; Lazaros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the present essay we introduce the concept of macroculture as a complex of mutually supporting values, norms and beliefs in various areas of human activity, like war, religion, politics, athletics, etc. in a model. Then, by applying the concept of bounded rationality, we analyse how some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257718
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Why West Asia declined
Cizakca, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Once considered to be one of the greatest civilizations of earth, Islamic West Asia declined dramatically from the 13th century onward. This article examines this phenomenon and tries to draw some lessons and policy suggestions for the contemporary peoples of the region.
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