list down the economic factors for reformation ?
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Economic and social causes: technological advances and the ways the church were collecting revenue, Political: distractions with foreign affairs, problems with marriage, challenges to authority.
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Abstract
The Protestant Reformation is a vivid example of how religious transformation could
set in motion institutional changes, leading to profound consequences for economic and
political development. Although economists and other social scientists agree that there
is a strong relation between the Reformation and economic growth, there is an active
discussion as to what are the causal pathways connecting Protestantism to long-run
economic success. We discuss the causal pathways that received substantial empirical
support in academic literature. Some of them, such as “work ethic” and entrepreneurial
spirit of Protestants, were originally suggested by Max Weber, while others, such as
religious freedom and education, are deeply grounded in economic theory. More
recently, other causal pathways have been suggested, such as social ethic, civil society,
and institutional changes. We bring our view of these pathways.