Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

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Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

and Other Writings

Anthropology

Author: Max Weber

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Language: English

Published by: Penguin Classics

Published on: 30th April 2002

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781101098479


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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