The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy

Jared Rubin

Chapter Chapter 19 in Advances in the Economics of Religion, 2019, pp 311-320 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This essay assesses the political and economic consequences of religious legitimacy. I employ the framework proposed in Rubin (2017) to shed light on why religious legitimacy might matter for political and economic outcomes and how it affects economies differently from other mechanisms that rulers use to stay in power. I proceed to provide some historical support for the framework before concluding with some speculative thoughts on the role of religious legitimacy on economic outcomes in the twenty-first century.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_19

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