26. From Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism | Individualism: A Reader
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Date: 01/07/2015

Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism: A Criticism of Max Weber and His School (London: Cambridge University Press, 1933)

The economic historian H. M. Robertson was senior lecturer in economics at the University of Cape Town. The excerpt reprinted here is the conclusion of Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism: A Criticism of Max Weber and His School. contrary to Weber, who traced the spirit of capitalism to the rise of Puritanism, Robertson attributes the rise of capitalism and economic individualism to an emerging secularism.

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