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Modern Capitalism

1902 · by Werner Sombart

Economic history of capitalism in two volumes (later three) that asks how a new economic mentality, the capitalist spirit, arose and how capitalism developed from early to late forms; it differs from Marx in explaining the origin by mentality, and Max Weber took up its question in the Protestant Ethic.

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