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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck
• Bentzen, Jeanet
• Dalgaard, Carl-Johan
• Sharp, Paul

Titel

PRE-REFORMATION ROOTS OF THE PROTESTANT ETHIC

Ist Teil von

• The Economic journal (London), 2017-09, Vol.127 (604), p.1756-1793

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We hypothesise that cultural appreciation of hard work and thrift, the Protestant ethic according to Max Weber, had a pre-Reformation origin: the Catholic Order of Cistercians. In support, we document an impact from the Order on growth within the epicentre of the Industrial Revolution; English counties that were more exposed to Cistercian monasteries experienced faster productivity growth from the 13th century onwards. Consistent with a cultural influence, this impact is also found after the monasteries were dissolved in the 1530s. Moreover, the values emphasised by Weber are relatively more pervasive in European regions where Cistercian monasteries were located historically.