Orthodoxy and economic backwardness: combating the myth

Abstract

The article ponders upon the potentially discriminative attitude towards Orthodox identity as a comparative impediment towards socioeconomic progress in 12 countries where such identity is believed to be shared by the majority, developed in political economists’ academic discourse. The current data provide no confident or decisive evidence for judgments of this kind. One might look at other sources for modern Orthodox nations’ relatively laggard development pattern.

Keywords

• Orthodoxy
• development
• comparative patterns
• OECD
• EU
• imperialism
• state socialism