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Tekijä:McBride, M.
Otsikko:Religious market competition in a richer world
Lehti:Economica
2010 : JAN, VOL. 77:305, p. 148-171
Asiasana:religion
economic growth
Kieli:eng
Tiivistelmä:Despite past predictions, economic growth has not led to a decline in religion. This paper shows how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market using a formal model of religious competition. The study shows that economic growth has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highly religious market with regulations that inhibit secular activities. Theories that predict the decline of religion due to rising opportunity costs of religious demand and supply ignore countervailing influences.
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