The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Maximilian Weber (1864 - 1920) - the largest German sociologist, the founder of sociology as a science of society, who still influences its development. Why are some countries richer and others poorer? Why did Catholic countries, despite the colossal wealth they had accumulated, cease to be the locomotives of history after the Reformation of the 16th century? And how did the religious teaching of the Protestants, in which asceticism was strangely combined with wealth, influence this? M. Weber answers these questions in his fundamental and most cited work, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." The author shows us the relationship between Protestant religious values and the "spirit of capitalism," arguing that in countries where such values dominated, the development of capitalism occurred faster and easier.