IN CONTEXT
Society and the economy
Max Weber (1864–1920)
1517 Martin Luther publishes The Ninety-Five Theses, starting the religious conflict that leads to the Reformation.
1688 The Glorious Revolution ends any chance of Catholicism returning to Britain and paves the way for the world’s first Industrial Revolution.
1993 Swedish social scientist Kurt Samuelsson argues that Puritan leaders did not truly endorse capitalistic behavior.
2009 Harvard economist Davide Cantoni publishes The Case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany, in which he claims to find “no effects of Protestantism on economic growth.”
The German sociologist ...
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