The Protestant Ethic and the

The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

Title: The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism
Author: Max Weber, Peter Baehr & Gordon C. Wells
Release: 2002-04-30
Kind: ebook
Genre: Social Science, Books, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Size: 1717513
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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