The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

1905 sociology book by Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (German: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus) is a book written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist, and politician. First written as a series of essays, the original German text was published in 1904 and 1905 in Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, and was translated into English for the first time by American sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1930. It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and a milestone contribution to sociological thought in general.

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