Centennial Rumination on Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismUniversal-Publishers, 13. märts 2006 - 272 pages In 1904-1905 Max Weber published the sociological classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." In this book Weber argues that religion, specifically "ascetic Protestantism" provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to modern capitalism. Weber's suggests that Protestantism has "an affinity for capitalism." Indeed, something within Protestantism-by accident or design-creates the necessary preconditions that lead to the flowering of a just, free, and prosperous society. At the same time, Weber wonders if the economic backwardness of certain societies and regions of the world are somehow related to their religious affiliation. Weber's century old thesis challenges the erroneous core assumptions of many secular humanists, postmoderns, Roman Catholic traditionalists, and Islamists. In view of the threat of the War on Terror, and in the face of the inadequate response of secularist and post-modern intellectuals, it is vital that we understand and appreciate the profound paradigm shift that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth century that led to the unfolding of modern capitalism. Despite a plethora of critics Max Weber's one-hundred year old thesis still stands. |
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... progress 5 Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “The Legitimacy of Capitalism,” The Ludwig von Mises Institute, <www.mises.org> (July 19, 2002). 6James Ralph Edwards, “Do Big Corporations Control America?” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty ...
... progress, whose full force was not felt until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Institutional changes that removed constraints on markets and the free purchase and sale of property, progress in corporate organization and ...
... progress, i.e., successful technological innovation feeds and builds on previous successful technological innovation. 4.) Institutional changes that promote entrepreneurship and work to reduce risk via, a.) The removal of mercantilist ...
... Progress. a.) Printing from Movable Type,32 i.e., the proto-Information Age. 4.) Institutional changes reducing risk and promoting entrepreneurship. a.) Removal of political constraints on markets. b.) The free purchase and sale of ...
... Progress (Irvington-on-Hudson: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1947, 2001), p. 83-112. 40Ibid. 41Contemporary Islamic radicals erroneously blame their current plight on the Crusades (1096-1291), Western Imperialism, and the State ...
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Proof of Case Confirmatio or Probatio | 140 |
Refutation of Opposing Arguments Confutatio | 165 |
Conclusion Peroratio | 187 |
Who is Max Weber? | 199 |
Bibliography | 243 |