This project attempts to gain deeper insights into the working properties of an economy, both by analyzing how social attitudes affect people’s economic behavior and how such attitudes in turn are affected by economic factors. Among the questions studied the following can be mentioned: How does economic, social and political globalization affect people’s willingness to teach children tolerance? Are people’s attitudes to people of different religious beliefs influenced by globalization? Is entrepreneurship a mechanism through which tolerance leads to growth? Is there a connection between religion and the size of government, which could stem from people’s felt need for safety when they no longer believe in a god? Can religious non-belief stimulate innovations through more creative thinking and the questioning of established points of view?
The Economic Significance of Social Attitudes
This project focuses on whether globalization affects a willingness to teach kids tolerance; how political legitimacy influences the growth effects of government size; how social trust relates to how soon reforms to make the central bank more independent are undertaken; how globalization affects the prevalence of religious tolerance; whether tolerance is conducive to entrepreneurship; and if the welfare state and religion are substitutes.
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