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  • Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right? 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber ...

  • The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949-1989 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    Why do some organizations decline while other do not? to study this issue , we introduce technological change into a theory of agency proposed by Laffont and Tirole. We show that the optimal organizational form for production depends on the estent of ...

  • Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
    Traditional explanations for Western Europe's demographic growth in the High Middle Ages are unable to explain the rise in per-capita income that accompanied observed population changes. Here, we examine the hypothesis that an innovation in information ...