作者:University of London; University College London; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
作者:State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Calgary
作者:Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; Copenhagen Business School; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
作者:University of Lausanne; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
作者:Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要: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 po...