In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.
| ISBN: | 9780140439212 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2005 |
| Author: | Max Weber, P R Baehr, Gordon C Wells |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
| Genres: |
Protestantism and Protestant Churches |