The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The book is one of those rare works of scholarship which no informed citizen can afford to ignore.

E. Michael Jones, Barren Metal PDF p. 19:

Max Weber's famous book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was part of that dialogue, a part which got ripped out of context and bent to serve ends which it could not achieve. Weber's book was a response to Werner Sombart's book on capitalism, and the dialogue continued when Sombart wrote, in turn, Jews and Capitalism in response to Weber's response to him. Sombart's analysis of the role that Jews played in the development of capitalism led him to propose his own tentative definition of capitalism: capitalism is the philosophical and political sanctification of usury. Because money-lending, according to Sombart, is "one of the most important roots of capitalism," capitalism "derived its most important characteristics from money-lending."

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