The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism: and Other Writings
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Publication Date: April 30th, 2002
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
ISBN:
9780140439212
Pages:
464
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Description
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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