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An immeasurable amount of work has been published on the topic of Faith and the Dynamics of Economic Development. Please see a reading list we have collected to point out a few we think are important.

Barro, Robert J. "Spirit of Capitalism: Religion and Economic Development."Harvard International Review 24, no. 4 (2004): 64-7.

Brook, Timothy. "Profit and Righteousness in Chinese Economic Culture."In Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, 27-44. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Chen, Zhiwu. "Can Markets Change Society?"Q2 (Fall 2007): 87-97.

Friedman, Thomas L. "The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention."Ch. 10 in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 195-217. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.

Friedman, Thomas L. "Tourist with an Attitude."Ch. 1 in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 3-24. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.

Grier, Robert. "The Effect of Religion on Economic Development: A Cross National Study of 63 Former Colonies."Kyklos 50, no. 1 (1997): 47-57.

Harvey, Peter. "Economic Ethics."Ch. 5 in An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues, 187-238. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Mead, Walter Russell. Chs. 13-17 in God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, 220-96. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Plummer, Scott.  "China's Fragile Future."The Tablet (August 2, 2008).

Tāliqānī, Āyatullāh Mahmūd. "The Characteristics of Islamic Economics."In Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito, 229-35. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Weber, Max. Excerpt from "The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism."Ch. 4 in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 53-80. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge, 2001. First published in 1930.

Yan, Yunxiang. "Managed Globalization: State Power and Cultural Transition in China."In Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World, edited by Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington, 19-44. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Yang, Fenggang. "Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald's: Conversion to Christianity in Urban China." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44, no. 4 (2005): 423-39.