PREDESTINATION AND THE PROTESTANT ETHIC

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alaoui, Larbi; Sandroni, Alvaro
• 署名单位: Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvx052
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 45-76
• 关键词: asset prices; anticipatory feelings; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; CHOICE; INFORMATION; consumption; religion; self; reformation; COOPERATION

摘要

This paper relates the secular premise that accumulating wealth is a moral obligation and the religious dogma that salvation is immutable and preordained by God. It thus formalizes Weber's renowned thesis on the connection between the worldly asceticism of Protestants and the religious doctrines of Calvinism. (JEL: D01, D03, D81)