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By Bruno COLMANT, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
For years, in the shadow of great authors, I have been interested in the juxtaposition of economic models and their religious influences. I have devoted several works to this subject. I share some insights on the recent research by demographer and historian Emmanuel Todd (who is publishing The Defeat of the West with Gallimard). Indeed, Emmanuel Todd links the collapse of the American world to the abandonment of the values of work and social discipline rooted in Protestantism.
The idea has been introduced previously. It was sketched out more than a century ago by the German sociologist Max...
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