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Chapter Four: Protestantism and the Rise of Capitalism
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This article is published in History of Political Economy.The article was published on 1978-03-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capitalism.read more
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The economic effects of the protestant reformation: testing the weber hypothesis in the german lands
TL;DR: Using population figures of 272 cities in the Holy Roman Empire in the years 1300-1900, the authors found no effects of Protestantism on economic growth, and the finding is precisely estimated, robust to the inclusion of various controls and does not depend on data selection or small sample size.
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The Enlightenment and its discontents: Antinomies of Christianity, Islam and the calculative sciences
TL;DR: This article explored the historical origins of this relationship as a struggle over the ideals of the Enlightenment: the decline of the modern and the rise of the postmodern, and the mechanisms behind this Enlightenment regression are examined here using literary analysis.
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Dispositions to act in favor of the environment: Fatalism and readiness to make sacrifices in a cross-national perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors hypothesize that individuals' environmental attitudes depend not only on their knowledge, interests, emotions, and values but also on the social context in which they live, and they test this hypothesis by analyzing the 2000/01 ISSP-II Survey on Environmental Attitudes; the data include respondents from 23 countries.
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Religion and the environmental opinion in 22 countries: a comparative study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from European Social Survey (ESS) 2002/2003 to test if religiosity affects environmental opinion in Europe, and they found strong concern for the environment in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries than in Protestant countries.
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The invention of hunter-gatherers in seventeenth-century Europe
TL;DR: The division of societies into categories including "savage" hunter-gatherers and "civilised" farmers has its roots in seventeenth-century northwestern Europe, but has implications for archaeologists and anthropologists today.