Why does the idea persist that Europe’s Catholic nations have always been economic slow-growers?

Why do some economists persist in stereotyping Europe’s Catholic nations as laggards, when they practically invented what we today call globalization?

Who still remembers that, before the advent of modern financial capitalism, power was wielded in much starker ways?

What can be done so that financial capitalism is a source not of disasters, but of true human progress and democratization?

The Nordic model has been hailed for its social successes. But does it make good economic sense?