When Religion Meets the Marketplace: Faith, Farming, and Trade-Offs

from The Pie: An Economics Podcast · host Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

What happens when your religion forbids the production of crops that dominate your local economy? In this episode, UChicago economist Eduardo Montero unpacks new research on the economic costs of religious prohibitions, and how these trade-offs shape church membership, satisfaction, and even sermons.

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