Culture, Conflict and Cooperation

Irish Dairying Before the Great War

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9717477
AutoresKevin H O''Rourke (0000-0001-6272-2090, Trinity College Dublin, autor correspondente), Kevin H O'Rourke (Trinity College Dublin, CEPR and NBER)
Ano2007
Volume117
Fascículo523
Páginas1357-1379
Data de publicação2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02086.x
OpenAlexW2164983585
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas28

A recent literature argues that 'hierarchical religions' such as Catholicism hamper the formation of trust, thus reducing the propensity to cooperate and damaging economic performance. This article looks for a link between Catholicism and the propensity to cooperate in the pre-1914 Irish dairy industry. Although the propensity to cooperate was higher in Denmark than in Ireland, and in Ulster than elsewhere in Ireland, Catholicism did not make cooperation more difficult in Ireland. Political conflict over land reforms and constitutional matters was to blame, not religion. Denmark's homogeneity, not its Protestantism, led to the success of cooperation there. Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007

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