The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 159
... Capitalism Max Weber's thesis , that Protestantism played a prime part in the conception and development of capitalism , has become current during the last generation . In view of the patent facts of history , this belief is as strange ...
... Capitalism Max Weber's thesis , that Protestantism played a prime part in the conception and development of capitalism , has become current during the last generation . In view of the patent facts of history , this belief is as strange ...
Page 340
... capitalism and in establishing other incentives to work and action than those of profit - making and conspicuous waste , successfully shattered the conceit that the only alternative to capitalism was a return to a more primitive peasant ...
... capitalism and in establishing other incentives to work and action than those of profit - making and conspicuous waste , successfully shattered the conceit that the only alternative to capitalism was a return to a more primitive peasant ...
Page 396
... capitalism because it might result in personal ruin . Now , we have seen just the opposite of these qualities in our time . Capitalists accepted the closing down of the world market for the same reason that democratic peoples accepted ...
... capitalism because it might result in personal ruin . Now , we have seen just the opposite of these qualities in our time . Capitalists accepted the closing down of the world market for the same reason that democratic peoples accepted ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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