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Jared Rubin
@jaredcrubin
Economics Professor @ChapmanU. President of @ASREC_Religion. Author of Rulers, Religion and Riches and How the World Became Rich https://t.co/1koBQc1JXY
Dec 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
SO happy this article will be published in JEL!

We conceptualize the literature connecting religion & growth in the context of standard growth models

I think we did a pretty good job (I hope you agree!) unifying what is a somewhat disparate literature

A short 🧵
1/7 We take a basic growth framework & show ways the literature argues that religion affects inputs into the macroeconomic production function

We focus on 4 types of inputs that may be augmented by religion: physical capital, human capital, population/labor, & productivity (TFP)
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Dec 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
**NEW WORKING PAPER**

Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

w/ Ali Almelhem, Murat Iyigun & Austin Kennedy

Available at:

Short 🧵 below…
1/7 docs.iza.org/dp16674.pdf



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Image We provide an empirical test of Mokyr’s “Culture of Growth” thesis - which asserts that a *progress-oriented* view of science, promoted by the great Enlightenment thinkers, helped facilitate Britain’s “Industrial Enlightenment” and ultimately its Industrial Revolution
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Dec 20, 2022 • 47 tweets • 29 min read
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (co-edited with @jaj7d) will be published in September 2023!

Chapters available as they are formatted at: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

The contributors did an amazing job. A thread on each chapter in the volume… (1/47) We tried to give wide coverage to HPE topics in economics and political science. We organized the volume into five sections:

1) Historical Political Economy: An Overview
2) How States are Organized
3) Components of the State
4) Long-Run Legacies
5) The State and Society
Apr 5, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Now forthcoming at European Economic Review

"A Theory of Cultural Revivals"
w/ Murat Iyigun & @SerorAvner

In short: we present a theory of how culture can be molded by elites to prevent more efficient modes of production (that harm the elites) from becoming dominant
1/ Much of the political economy literature on this topic tends to focus on vested interests preventing change. This explanation works in many settings

But elites often do not have the political power to prevent more efficient modes of production from becoming dominant
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Feb 16, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Excited we finally have a draft of this paper, which attempts to provide a 'unifying theory' of the long economic divergence between the Middle East & Western Europe

As we see it, there are 3 recent theories that hit on important aspects of the divergence...

1/ One set of theories focus on the legitimating power of Islam (Rubin, @prof_ahmetkuru, Platteau). This gave religious clerics greater power, which pulled political resources away form those encouraging economic development

But these theories leave some questions unanswered...
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Jun 16, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
***Religion in Economic History: A Survey***

with @essobecker and Ludger Woessmann

An extensive survey covering the emerging field of “religion in economic history”

Available here: cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_…

1/ Prepared for The Handbook of Historical Economics (elsevier.com/books/the-hand…), edited by @albertobisin & Giovanni Federico

Surveys the recent literature asking “How has religion affected economic history?” “How did historical circumstances shape religious beliefs/activities?”

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May 5, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My one and only COVID-19 take:

This crisis has revealed to me that most economists need to take a class in economic history 1\ It is not because economists should be well-versed in the history of pandemics. Indeed, most economic historians are not even well-versed in this

It is because of the way economic historians deal with really ***tricky data*** 2\
Aug 11, 2019 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Economics fields as @dril tweets 👇 Macro
Jun 29, 2018 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
Now that my book, Rulers, Religion & Riches, has been out over a year, I thought I would share its figures and tables. To the extent possible in 280 characters, I will place each of them in the context of the broader arguments made in the book.

amazon.com/gp/product/B01…

(THREAD} Table 1.1 is a motivating table, meant to show that the contemporary Middle East is poorer, has worse governance, and is more subject to conflict than the "West".

The question is, given the Middle East's vast head start (by, say, 1000), how did we get to this point?
May 4, 2018 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I just remembered that 2018 is a big year for U.S. copyright law so I’m going to indulge with a thread.

Why is it a big year for copyright law? It is the first year *in twenty freaking years* that works will enter the public domain.

THREAD... How does this affect you?

Have you ever tried to read a book on Google Books only to be cut off after reading a few pages? That’s because the book *might* be under copyright. This is true for *any* book published since 1923.