Weber, passion and profits
Subtitle: 'the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism' in context
By: Jack Barbalet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521895095
Subjects: Weber, Max, -- 1864-1920. -- History and criticism; Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches; Protestant work ethic; Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant ethic : political education and German futures; title: From the Protestant ethic to the vocation lectures : Beruf, rationality and emotion; title: Passions and profits : the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England; title: Protestant virtues and deferred gratification : Max Weber and Adam Smith on the spirit of capitalism; title: Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism : Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen; title: The Jewish question : religious doctrine and sociological method.