devout determinism,or the idea that specific forms of belief and worship lead to specific forms of political and economic behaviour, is always a fascinating field for dabbling. Indeed one might even say that such determinism is itself a form of religion, and if that is defined as a system of thought which offers compelling answers to questions that might otherwise be shadowy and elusive. Recently there has been a little wave of discussion approximately devout determinism in the e-commentariat.
It began with a working paper for the World Bank by two economists with Bulgarian roots: the country’s former finance minister,Simeon Djankov, and Elena Nikolova of University College London. They crunched some of the results of two transnational investigations into social attitudes: the World Values Survey and a probe by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Their conclusion was that something approximately Eastern Orthodox Christianity had made its...
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Source: economist.com