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February 2016 Blog Posts (2)

EL NOMBRE DE LA ROSA (Por Umberto Eco)

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Added by Román Culebro Martínez on February 19, 2016 at 11:13pm — No Comments

ECONOMICS OF SAINTHOOD (By Barro et.al.)

"Our goal is to apply economic reasoning to understand the Church’s choices on numbers and characteristics of saints, gauged by location and socioeconomic attributes of the persons designated as blessed. (...) In the present study, we analyze determinants of rates of canonization and beatification and how these rates varied by pope, including an impact from the cumulated stock of beatifieds who have not yet been canonized. We plan to investigate how the probability of being chosen depends on…

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Added by Román Culebro Martínez on February 9, 2016 at 7:00pm — No Comments