The spirit of Capitalism is service. Nobody voluntarily parts with money unless they get something they value more. I want your money, I have to make you happy.
>...certain ethic grew linking moral righteousness with making money. It was not just that Protestants sought wealth more purposefully than Catholics, but that Protestants showed ‘a special tendency to develop economic rationalism’; that is, a particular approach to creating wealth that was less focused on the gain of comfort than on the pursuit of profit itself. The particular satisfaction was not in the money extracted to buy things (which had always driven money making in the past), but in wealth creation based on increased productivity and better use of resources.<
thanks. i’d forgotten about this book.
you could not get through the university when i was an undergrad w/o reading weber, especially leftist profs required it.
I am sure that this is no longer required reading for college ‘students’
Too bad. It is the bedrock for understanding anything about our economy-and how our system really works.
In other words, better stewardship of what God has given to mankind.
Books by modern Weberians are ‘Trust’ by Francis Fukuyama and ‘The Central Liberal Truth’ by Lawrence Harrison. The title from the second book comes from a quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, it is actually a pretty conservative book. You don’t find many secular intellectuals who speak approvingly of Pentecostalism (which modern day Weber’s identify as the third great Protestant revival. Calvinism was the first, Methodism was the second, along with the Baptists).
read later