01:050:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vivant

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: 01:050:101
• Professor: Jefferson Decker

Document Summary

Capitalism and culture: does capitalism have its own culture, values, or morals, potential con ict with religious imperatives, notions of the public good, democratic culture, personal independence, human dignity. Late-colonial america"s foremost self-made man : grows up in boston, moves to philadelphia, makes a career as a printer, self-publishes proli cally under a number of pseudonyms, also gets involved in the intense politics of colonel pennsylvania; later signs the. Declaration of independence, serves as a diplomat and attends the constitutional. Convention: also the thing with the key and the kite. Don"t spend too much, allow your money to make money: be industrious. Wasting time is wasting money: max weber, the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1905) Americans versus franklin: does anyone really listen to poor richard"s advice, americans as enthusiastic (and too-often debt-ridden) consumers instead of frugal, industrious accumulators of wealth.