Religion and the Rise of Capitalism — When Economics Became a Separate Sphere
What changes when economic life stops being judged as part of a common moral order and begins to operate as a separate sphere?
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In Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, historian R. H. Tawney investigates the changing relationship between religious thought and economic activity from the medieval period through the beginning of the eighteenth century. His history traces a transformation from a social philosophy in which economic conduct was expected to serve larger moral purposes toward one increasingly willing to…
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