Chapter 11 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
But in the Late Seventeenth Century the English Changed
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…)
