Weber Revisited
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5752912 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felix Kersting (0000-0002-1808-5212, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Iris Wohnsiedler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Nikolaus Wolf (0000-0002-7461-2910, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 710-745 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050720000364 |
| OpenAlex | W3014577698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 47 |
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save." Moreover, we find that income levels, savings, and literacy rates differed between Germans and Poles, not between Protestants and Catholics, using pooled OLS and IV regressions. We suggest that this result is due to anti-Polish discrimination
Asceticism · Economics · Interpretation (philosophy) · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Nationalismus
Religion and Growth
A Protestáns etika kémiája
Behavior, religion, and socio-economic development
Prussia disaggregated
Durkheim and the roots of cliometric reasoning
Causal Explanation of Cultural Change in Weber’s Footsteps? A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Current Studies
Antisemitic Charisma
European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–2000
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development
Comparative Politics in Borderlands
The Cross of Gold
The Introduction of Bismarck's Social Security System and its Effects on Marriage and Fertility in Prussia
Shades of empire
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic
Das Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
Inference with Arbitrary Clustering
Identity, Morals, and Taboos
The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation
Railroads and Growth in Prussia
The Scope of Cooperation
Financial literacy around the world
The German Theological Sources and Protestant Church Politics
Weber's Protestant Ethic
Plausibly Exogenous
Printing and Protestants
Die protestantische Ethik und der "Geist" des Kapitalismus
Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung
Jack Barbalet, Weber, Passion and Profits. ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ in Context
Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance
Ipehd—The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
The Beloved Myth
Willpower and Personal Rules
Exit, Voice, and Political Change
Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885–1933
State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany
Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation
Adopting a New Religion
Human societies
Elite Influence? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing Before World War II
Religion and Economic Growth across Countries
Decolonizing Weber
Cooperatives as Information Machines
Geschichte der deutschen Sparkassen bis zum Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts
Germans, Poles, and Jews
Replication and Reanalysis of Offenbacher's School Enrollment Study
Weber's Inaugural Lecture and its Place in his Sociology
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |