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The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Max Weber

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.

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It was mentioned in the context of the Carnegie Conjecture which states that inheritance of wealth deadens talents, and that capitalism requires entrepreneurship without nepotism.

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capitalism requires, and I quote, a more individualistic form of entrepreneurship and the absence of nepotism.

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Episode: The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)

It was mentioned in the context of the Carnegie Conjecture which states that inheritance of wealth deadens talents, and that capitalism requires entrepreneurship without nepotism.

"

capitalism requires, and I quote, a more individualistic form of entrepreneurship and the absence of nepotism.

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