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How economic ideas evolve : the impact of religion on the German and Italian welfare state / Josef Hien.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hien, Josef, 1981- Author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in historical sociology.
- Cambridge studies in historical sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare state--Germany--History.
- Welfare state.
- Welfare state--Italy--History.
- Public welfare--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Public welfare.
- Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- How Economic Ideas Evolve offers a unique perspective on the development of political economies in Europe. With three major contributions, the book first establishes a link between religious, social, and economic ideas and the diverging development of political economies in Europe. Secondly, the work provides a historical sociological analysis of the contextual factors that influenced the development of religiously inspired socio-economic ideas. Chapters examine the impact of these ideas on economic and welfare institutions in Germany and Italy over three centuries. Lastly, the book goes beyond classic historical sociology to focus on the long-term developmental trajectories and impact of ideas on politics and policy. Thorough and expansive, How Economic Ideas Evolve contributes to the emerging scholarship of ideational historical sociology, broadening the toolkit of historical sociology to research the development and impact of socio-economic ideas and ideologies over long periods of time.
- Contents:
- Josef Hien, IFFS 30.10.2024
- Catholicism and the formation of the German welfare state
- Catholicism and the Italian Welfare State in the 19th century
- Protestantism and Catholicism in German postwar reconstruction
- The influence of Catholicism on Italian post war reconstruction
- What's left? Religion and welfare policies in the 21st century in Italy and Germany
- Conclusion, 8.8.2024.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-56927-9
- 1-009-56925-2
- 1-009-56929-5
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