The Beloved Myth: Protestantism and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By Jacques Delacroix, F. Nielsen. 2001

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Adopting a new religion: The case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany (2012, unknown): “The findings about any direct effects of Protestantism on economic growth are unclear at best (Delacroix and Nielsen, 2001; Cantoni, 2010).”
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (2009, unknown): “…at what has been called the “Common Interpretation” (Delacroix and Nielsen 2001) of the Protestant Ethic which has taken a life of its own, namely the simple emphasis of a “connection between Protestantism and economic progress” (Coleman’s 1959 introduction to Samuelson [1957] 1993) in general.”
Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “For instance, McClelland (1961) in psychology, Collins (1997) and Delacroix and Nielsen (2001) in sociology, Becker and Woessmann (2009) in economics and Urbano and Alvarez (2014) in entrepreneurship research test institutional factors to explain different measures of entrepreneurial activity.”