Weber, Passion and Profits : 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' in Context (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant ethic: political education and German futures; 2. From the Protestant ethic to the vocation lectures: Beruf, rationality and emotion; 3. Passions and profits: the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England; 4. Protestant virtues and deferred gratification: Max Weber and Adam Smith on the spirit of capitalism; 5. Ideal type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen; 6. The Jewish question: religious doctrine and sociological method; Conclusion.