The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
, by Weber, Max- ISBN: 9780486427034 | 048642703X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/4/2003
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.