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Weber, passion and profits : "the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism" in context / Jack Barbalet

Barbalet, J. M. [Verfasser] [1946-]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 250 pages)

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-48875-7 ; 978-0-521-89509-5 ; 978-0-521-17444-2

MQ 3911

 

Weber, Max, 1864-1920. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus 

 

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Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirational and widely read by both scholars and students. In an insightful interpretation, Jack Barbalet discloses that Weber's work is not simply about the cultural origins of capitalism but an allegory concerning the Germany of his day. Situating The Protestant Ethic in the development of Weber's prior and subsequent writing, Barbalet traces changes in his understanding of key concepts including 'calling' and 'rationality'. In a close analysis of the ethical underpinnings of the capitalist spirit and of the institutional structure of capitalism, Barbalet identifies continuities between Weber and the eighteenth-century founder of economic science, Adam Smith, as well as Weber's contemporary, the American firebrand Thorstein Veblen. Finally, by considering Weber's investigation of Judaism and capitalism, important aspects of his account of Protestantism and capitalism are revealed.