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Discuss the role of Calvinist ethic in the development of Capitalism.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Sociological Thinkers

Profit-seeking existed in Babylon, Rome, China and India. Max Weber's question in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05) was narrower: why did rational bourgeois capitalism arise only in the modern West? Its hallmarks are disciplined free labour, book-keeping and reinvested profit. His answer is that a set of Calvinist religious ideas produced,…

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