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Was Weber Really Wrong? A Comment on Some Recent Empirical Studies on Economic Growth
- Source :
- Max Weber Studies
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Project Muse, 2021.
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Abstract
- In the last two decades, there have been two influential papers in empirical economic growth, Becker and Woessmann (2009) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001), which explicitly or implicitly claim that Weber's thesis has been refuted by empirical evidence. This paper argues that their alleged refutation of Weber is achieved by serious distortions and reductions of Weber's thesis combined with a sequence of unsubstantiated extrapolations.
- Subjects :
- Økonomisk vekst
VDP::Sociology: 220
Theodicy
Comparative Religion
Protestant Ethics
Max Weber
Sammenlignende religionskunnskap
Theodicéproblemet
Økonometriske og statistiske metoder: generelt
Protestantisk etikk
Econometric and statistical methods: general
VDP::Sosiologi: 220
Economic growth
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Max Weber Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..7426054d7ed9bdc3a3dbe8e3144deaad