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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1905
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 280
A Calvinist weaver in seventeenth-century Holland counts his profits at the close of day, then sets them aside untouched, because spending them would betray a calling whose proof is in the saving. Max Weber published this sociological essay across 1904 and 1905, tracing the strange affinity between Reformed theology and the rational, accumulative discipline that would become modern capitalism.
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