gay marriage
The graph represents the relationship between the proportion of favorable to gay marriage and the GDP per capita in 2008 for a sample of EU countries. And 'it is abundantly clear that the positive relationship, ie in countries where this percentage is higher, the higher the GDP (ok, the ex-east have other reasons to be particularly poor at present. Redoing the estimation without them, the coefficient remains abundantly positive. Referring only to them, the coefficient remains highly significant, p-value: 5.6%). What is becoming favorable to gay marriage becomes even richer? Of course not. E ', however, likely to be favorable to gay marriage is correlated with greater openness, greater availability against "minorities" (women, foreigners, homosexuals, young people, computer scientists, chemists, engineers, scientists, etc..), and in particular their socio-economic ascent. In a world where it is essential to the emergence of talent and innovation, this attitude is crucial. Be favorable to gay marriage is probably a good indicator of the cultural traits of a country, and where there is more bigotry are probably common behaviors that are not good for the economy which needs, as mentioned, innovation and risk taking. A country troubled by the idea that two people of the same sex can marry, and that does not dare to pass laws decent in this sense (I remember randomly Italy), has little chance to put itself on a path of modern economic growth. More proabile a transition to a model pre-modern style Holy Roman Empire.