Is there a good study of US church creation as a form of entrepreneurship? Growth, fragmentation, competition, dynamism etc.
I'd love to read an economic history of the Catholic Church (or any other major Church). Most successful startup ever, even though product-market fit took 400+ years.
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have a feeling the coming together of the church and colonialism drove the exponential growth
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Add the people who have been killed because they refused to convert. It's easy to convert people into your religion if refusal means death.
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Adjacently, there was an article on reading the Bible through economic lens; seeing Jesus as dying not for sins but debts. There's a book on it entitled, "...and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age..." https://michael-hudson.com/2017/12/he-died-for-our-debt-not-our-sins/ …
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Hazard J., Sclavounis O., Stieber H. (2016) Are Transaction Costs Drivers of Financial Institutions? Contracts Made in Heaven, Hell, and the Cloud in Between.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42448-4_12 …
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Robert Tollison wrote one...
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+1 Would also love to read this
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I can totally recommend this https://g.co/kgs/aVToHS pic.twitter.com/xUFST5HmZy
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Imagine people saying”well, if it took it 250 years to reach 1.9% is not going to be massive anytime...”
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