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The Economics of Religion: A Survey of Recent Work
(Association of Christian Economists, 1991)
This essay is designed to familiarize readers with the economics of religion, make its literature more accessible, and encourage further contributions to that literature. The essay begins with work on the religious behavior ...
Religion Still Matters
(Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2000)
Research by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison and by Hull and Bold shows a negative relationship between church membership and crime rates. The results are important but do not employ the most recent available data. This ...
The Effect of Foreign and Local Visitors on Granting Park Concessions
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 1987)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive rights (concessions) to provide products or services within the park. The characteristics include that park development is only attractive ...
Towards an Economic Theory of the Church
(MCB University Press, 1989)
This paper employs the theory of the firm to explain behavior of the church. Churches produce a set of products including entertainment, a variety of socially valuable public goods, eternal life, and alteration of otherwise ...
Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
(Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, 2017)
In 1119 King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of a new monastic order: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of ...