"People like to see their pastors wealthy," said Kate Bowler, an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School who has studied prosperity theology.
The "Pathways to Prosperity" study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education shows that just 56percentt of college students complete four-year degrees.
In his seminal paper, which created a "bohemian-gay index" to measure the relationship between diverse, sexually tolerant cities and economic prosperity, urban studies doyen Richard Florida argued that the more tolerant a city was, the more its technological industry and economy thrived.
"You come and try to study the reason of prosperity," Cho said.
In the eighties, when China set itself in pursuit of prosperity, the Party studied how Confucian values had helped to stabilize other countries in East Asia.
This does bring about prosperity in the study of cone metric spaces.
Our study has shown that rising prosperity is associated with increases in life expectancy at the local authority level in England, over a 10 year period of favourable macroeconomic conditions.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson was keen to underscore how the trips are not a holiday: "Overseas Study Tours are an integral part of the Royal College of Defence Studies course to study prospects for security, stability and prosperity in different regions.
It demands that the work advance the "national health, prosperity, or welfare" of the United States, "is groundbreaking," and "is not duplicative" of studies funded by another federal agency.
With American prosperity dependent on innovation, the studies warn, the nation's economic future is at risk.
