March 30th, 2010
One countable piece of evidence that bourgeois values were becoming dominant in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is the new, dominate role of counting in giving evidence. It is assuredly modern, and was not in fashion during Dekker’s or Shakespeare’s time. The pre-modern attitude — which survives nowadays in many a non-quantitative modern (more…)
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April 9th, 2010
What changed 1600-1848, and dramatically, was the high- and low-cultural attitude towards thrift, capitalism, innovation, and the bourgeoisie. Weber is here correct, though not in thinking that the Puritans had much to do with it. Thriftiness and other specifically economic virtues, such as prudent calculation of costs and benefits or an admiring attitude towards industrial (more…)
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