Economic Growth and Religious Beliefs
Is There a Difference in Patterns of Economic Growth when Controlled by Major Western Religion?
- Editore:
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- EAN:
9783659490774
- ISBN:
3659490776
- Pagine:
- 172
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Economic Growth and Religious Beliefs
Cole, Ohanian, Riascos & Schmitz (2005), in an attempt to attribute Latin Americäs long-run economic performance to something besides culture, argued that when considering ethnic, language, and religion, ¿¿ Latin America is a Western region.¿ Thus, it was reasonable to compare Latin America to a peer group of other Western market economies, and by holding culture constant, Cole et al. (2005) were presumably able to attribute differences in long-run economic performance to something besides culture. The goal of my research was to determine if there was a difference in patterns of economic growth in the peer group of twenty-two nations and the twelve ¿Western¿ nations of Latin America, utilized by Cole et al. (2005), when controlled by major Western religion. The literature made a strong case that there are significant differences between the Protestant and the Catholic expressions of the Christian faith, and importantly, that these theological differences should have made a temporal difference. I argued that not all Western religions were the same in that (eternal) religious beliefs should have made an (temporal) economic difference.
