Arbeitspapier
How fundamentalism takes root: A simulation study
We report agent-based simulations of religiosity dynamics in a spatially dispersed population. Agents' religiosity responds to neighbors via pairwise interactions as well as via club goods effects. A simulation run is deemed fundamentalist if the final distribution contains a sizable minority of very high religiosity together with a majority of lesser religiosity. Such simulations are more prevalent when parameter values shift from values reflecting traditional societies towards values reflecting the modern world. The simulations suggest that the rise of fundamentalism in the modern world is boosted by greater real income, lower relative prices for secular goods, less substitutability between religious and secular goods, and less time spent with neighbors. Surprisingly, the simulations suggest little role for the rise of long distance communication and transportation.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 737
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Cultural Economics: Religion
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: Other
Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
Publicly Provided Goods: Other
- Thema
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fundamentalism
club goods
agent-based models
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Friedman, Daniel
Fan, Jijian
Gair, Jonathan
Iyer, Sriya
Redlicki, Bartosz
Velu, Chander
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of California, Economics Department
- (wo)
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Santa Cruz, CA
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Friedman, Daniel
- Fan, Jijian
- Gair, Jonathan
- Iyer, Sriya
- Redlicki, Bartosz
- Velu, Chander
- University of California, Economics Department
Entstanden
- 2016