Talk:The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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[edit] Petty and Buckle

Any ideas who Petty and Buckle are? I was compiling the info from a book, but it has just the surnames... --Piotrus 15:30, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Most likely William Petty but I have no way of being certain.

Munkee 08:31, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sir William Petty was referenced on pg 179 of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" in regards to his opinion on Calvinists and Baptists, and Henry Thomas Buckle is listed in the index of the protestant ethic has having a reference to pg 44. It reads - "For Scotland, Buckle, and among English poets, Keats, have emphasized these same relationships." -SubjectiveAnalysis 08:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Why has this article been moved from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism to The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (book)? Correct me if I'm wrong but adding something like "(book)" to the end of a title is for disambiguation. Is there another The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism? Iota 19:16, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Still with working redirects I don't there is any problem, and eventually they may be a disambig to a more general discussion on that subject, I guess. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:11, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It seems a pointless move, to me. Noisy | Talk 01:50, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

I moved it back. Even if we were to create an article on this topic, it would be at The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (lowercase) or something similar. Guan aco 02:53, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Complementing the suggestion for change lowercase the title, I would suggest that spirit figure between quotes, as original ("geist"). The missing signal reduces slightly the meaning of capitalism essence as a "spirit".

[edit] 1926

I changed 1930 to 1926 based upon

"Often contemptuous shortened form Prot is from 1725, in Irish English. Protestant (work) ethic (1926) is taken from Max Weber's work "Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus" (1904)."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=protestant++&searchmode=none

That seems to run contradictory to the 1958 edition of the book, on the Preface to the New Edition section (xiii) which lists "When the English Translation first appeared, in England in 1930..." as written by Talcott Parsons, September 1958

and is also listed here http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WEBER/header.html