Also, Protestant countries tend to be more economically developed than Catholic ones - so why? Marxism would say that people's ideas are a manifestation of the economic structure they find themselves in, but Weber believes this is only partly true, although he starts off strongly opposed to Marxism, in the end he is much less certain of the limits of the role of economics in providing the base for these ideas to flourish. There appears to be lots more Protestant capitalists than there are Catholic ones.
It is in this final chapter that the real thesis is worked out.Ī thumbnail version goes like this. It is not that the rest of the book is completely uninteresting, but it is much less interesting. I think you could get away with reading just chapter five of this one - that is where the guts of the argument is.
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