Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

Religion and economic growth: was Weber right?

Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber suggested an alternative explanation based on culture. Here, a theoretical model confirms that a small change in the subjective cost of cooperatin...

Aid, Policies, and Growth: Bauer Was Right

Although Bauer’s influence has been powerful, it has not been pervasive. There appear to be some in the economic development community on whom his message seems not to have made even a dent. A case in point is the much-acclaimed study by two World Bank economists, Craig Burnside and David Dollar (2000, henceforth BD). Relying on a panel data set of 56 countries over six 4-year periods (beginnin...

Legal Protection of the Right to Voice

Right on voice is one of the rights which protect of person’s voice and sound and prohibit of imitation (sound effects) and sound forgery. Today on the light of increasing developments of communications this right includes some forms and instances which protected by legal systems in different ways. In some of the legal systems, this right has recognized on the basis of personality rights and ri...

Was Einstein 100% Right ? *

The confrontation between General Relativity and experimental results, notably binary pulsar data, is summarized and its significance discussed. The agreement between experiment and theory is numerically very impressive. However, some recent theoretical findings (existence of non-perturbative strong-field effects, natural cosmological attraction toward zero scalar couplings) suggest that the pr...

Fisher Was Right