Jack Barbalet, J. M. Barbalet

Weber, Passion and Profits

'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' in Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh vision of Max Weber's most renowned work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174442
• ISBN-10: 0521174449
• Artikelnr.: 32468210

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant ethic:
political education and German futures; 2. From the Protestant ethic to the
vocation lectures: Beruf, rationality and emotion; 3. Passions and profits:
the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England; 4.
Protestant virtues and deferred gratification: Max Weber and Adam Smith on
the spirit of capitalism; 5. Ideal type, institutional and evolutionary
analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen; 6.
The Jewish question: religious doctrine and sociological method;
Conclusion.