POL101Y1 Lecture : How the West Got Rich
21 Apr 2011
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They came to north america and stole all the wealth and exploited the natives. Theory 2- weather: warming up of europe after 15th century. Cold areas got r ich first not the warm ones. Reason it was protestant: catholicism was more restrictive and. Weber wasn"t the first to do this: in fact most social theorists were responding to karl marx. Published as two long articles in 1904 and 1905. Opens it with a statistical fact: business leaders and owners of capital as well as the higher grades of skilled labor and even more the higher technically and commercially . Not merely a contemporary fact but an historical fact: tracing the association back, it can be shown that some of the early centers of capitalist development in the early part of the 16th century were strongly protestant. Break with economic traditionalism produced a sloughing off of . But this interpretation does not stand up to scrutiny.
