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27. Tibor Rutar - Capitalism for Realists

Ideas Having Sex

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I'd Love to Hear Your Critiques and Why You Deplore the Cultural Explanations

I'm quite convinced by the statistical evidence that especially Henrik Marshals in his book. The longer that you were under the influence of the church, the lower today the kinship intensity index in your countries and the lesser the prevalence of cousin marriages is. So obviously the church did something right when it or it was efficacious when it banned all of those normative practices. But the biggest hangup I have is that his story is, we could call it Pan Western European. It applies to the whole of Western Europe, because all of those places had a similar, I think, eight or nine century long exposure to the church. That makes me doubtful of his claim. There's also the issue

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