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DP14894 Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Sascha O. Becker; Jared Rubin; Ludger Woessmann
发表日期2020-06-15
出版年2020
语种英语
摘要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 to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced econometric techniques, the voluminous literature on the Protestant Reformation studies its socioeconomic causes as well as its consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion, and social outcomes. Works on missionaries show that early access to Christian missions still has political, educational, and economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the “long divergence” between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power and conflict. Second, human capital often played a leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions.
主题Economic History
关键词Judaism Christianity Islam Economic history Education Persecution Political economy Finance Specialization Trade
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp14894
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543834
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Sascha O. Becker,Jared Rubin,Ludger Woessmann. DP14894 Religion in Economic History: A Survey. 2020.
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