Tyler Cowen — The economics of the Protestant Reformation

Here is the abstract of a new paper by Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar, and Noam Yuchtman:

Important economic history and history of economics for the development of the socio-economic system that subsequently emerged in the West as economic liberalism and "capitalism."

Good stuff in the comments, too.

Marginal Revolution
The economics of the Protestant Reformation
Tyler Cowen | Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center