The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings by Peter Baehr, Max Weber, Gordon C. Wells

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

Peter Baehr, Max Weber, Gordon C. Wells

464 pages first pub 1904 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.

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