The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth

by Liah Greenfeld

Book Overview

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Taking her title from Max Weber's famous study on the same subject, Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behaviour, which from the 16th century on has reoriented one economy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006143
• ISBN13: 9780674006140
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 541 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.6"