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Jan 23, 2023
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This blog takes its name from an important line in Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation,” but no Weber library is complete without “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” which argues that the religious beliefs of Calvinists and other Protestants, particularly their emphasis on hard work and discipline, played a key role in shaping the devel…

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