The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781607960973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 316 str.

Max Weber (Late of the Universities of Freiburg Heidelburg a

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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.