The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Автор:
Max WeberЖанр:
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2026-07-28Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
103
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Capitalism as a pervasive economic system was not inevitable. The ideas underlying such a way of organizing society must have originated somewhere.
In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the German historian Max Weber attempts to trace the economic and philosophical development of capitalism, first by identifying what he calls “the spirit of capitalism.” For Weber this is best encapsulated by Benjamin Franklin’s well-known aphorism “time is money.” This apparently innocuous statement only makes sense in a wage economy, where one is comfortable thinking about time as something that can be...
