The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Title: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Max Weber
Release: 2009-07-26
Kind: ebook
Genre: Social Science, Books, Nonfiction
Size: 2798967
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds - an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.

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