Economie du judaïsme, du christianisme et de l’islam
lundi 28 janvier 2008
Philippe Simonnot, docteur ès sciences économiques, est l’auteur d’une vingtaine d’ouvrages d’économie et d’histoire. Parmi les titres les plus récents : Les papes, l’Église et l’argent (2005) et L’Erreur économique (2004). Il dirige le site (...) >suite
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. I use a formal model of religious competition to show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious participation in an open religious market, while economic growth will have little (...) >suite
This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and the ensuing economic and social implications. Using two large-scale European data sets, we show that the religious enjoy higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion (...) >suite
This article asks whether there is any casual connection between the contemporaneous decline in industriousness and religiosity in Europe over the past 25 years. In the United States working hours and levels of religious faith and observance have held steady or even increased over this period. (...) >suite
Ce papier s’inscrit dans la logique des débats ayant cours depuis une dizaine d’années sur les politiques de réduction de la pauvreté. Il évalue l’influence du capital social religieux sur la pauvreté des ménages au Cameroun et particulièrement dans la ville de Yaoundé.
Dans un premier temps, il (...) >suite
This paper examines how two dimensions of childhood religion—affiliation and participation—are related to the probability of graduating from high school. Hypotheses derived from a human capital model are tested with data on non-Hispanic white and black women from the 1995 National Survey of (...) >suite
This paper explores the effect of religious observance and affiliation to the dominant religion (Catholicism) on trust in institutions, towards others and market attitudes. The analysis is performed using a Latin American database of twenty thousand respondents from 2004 by means of ordered (...) >suite
This paper explores a highly controversial issue : while most European countries are undergoing a clear and well-documented process of secularization, the governments of these countries widely support religious institutions. The arguments put forward by the median voter seem insufficient to (...) >suite
Economic theory, applied economic modeling and econometric methods offer advantageous tools for analyzing numerous organizations, institutions and social contexts which are not inherently downright economical by nature, as religious markets. In contemporary rational choice religious market (...) >suite