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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - (Economy Editions) by Max Weber (Paperback)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - (Economy Editions) by  Max Weber (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God -- was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the struggle of opposites. Instead, he 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 discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic study has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>..".a brilliant study of the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization."<br>

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