How Economic Ideas Evolve

The Impact of Religion on the German and Italian Welfare State

Josef Hien (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-56926-2 (ISBN)

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This book demonstrates the link between religious ideas and the diverging development of economies and welfare states in Europe. The work provides an analysis of the contextual factors that steered religious development and expands historical sociology by focusing on religious ideas and their long-term developmental trajectories in politics.

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.

Josef Hien is Researcher in Political Science at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm and a member of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Mid Sweden University. He is interested in the connection between politico-economic institutions, religion, ideologies, and cultures.

1. Introduction; 2. Catholicism and the formation of the German welfare state; 3. Catholicism and the Italian Welfare State in the nineteenth century; 4. Protestantism and Catholicism in German postwar reconstruction; 5. The influence of Catholicism on Italian post war reconstruction; 6. What's left? Religion and welfare policies in the twenty-first century in Italy and Germany; 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-009-56926-0 / 1009569260
ISBN-13	978-1-009-56926-2 / 9781009569262
Zustand	Neuware