The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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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