Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards, with passion and judgment together.

Politik ist ein starkes langsames Bohren von harten Brettern mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß zugleich.

Economists

Born 1864

Born 1864, Erfurt. Giant of social science. Protestant Ethic argued Calvinist asceticism birthed capitalism. Established interpretive sociology, ideal types, iron cage. Died 1920 of Spanish flu.

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

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