This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.
Rachel McCleary is Lecturer in the Economics Department at Harvard University, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is author of The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging.
Robert Barro is Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is author of The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging.
Robert Barro: I think saying that there is an unequivocal relationship is too strong. I think the relation is more nuanced. We found that religious beliefs that sustain traits such as work effort, thrift and honesty promoted economic growth. We also found that just more attendance at formal religious services, [...]
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Objectively, the relationship or similarity between different religions, in broad terms and under a generalist prism, is so scarce that it prevents any conclusion from being reached. The same fact, which is intrinsically good and positive in a given religion, for another can be negative and object of persecution. The analysis of the interviewees corresponds to a very personal view, most likely the result of their disconnection to a particular religion. However, this is not a reflection of objectivity, but of a rather partial and incomplete vision. The epigraph of this article already evidences it. Such a complex issue should therefore not be treated so lightly.|
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