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Monday, August 09, 2004
Working hours and religion
The atheist sloth ethic, or why Europeans don't believe in work
is the rather unhelpful title of Niall Ferguson's article in the Telegraph, which links the reduction in working hours in Europe to the decline of religion (and particularly Protestantism), contrasting it to the high working hours and high productivity of the more religious US.
It's an interesting if highly provocative argument, based on Max Weber's 1904 thesis "The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". However if you're really interested, Ferguson explores this argument much more thoroughly in his 2003 New York Times article, Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor).
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is the rather unhelpful title of Niall Ferguson's article in the Telegraph, which links the reduction in working hours in Europe to the decline of religion (and particularly Protestantism), contrasting it to the high working hours and high productivity of the more religious US.
It's an interesting if highly provocative argument, based on Max Weber's 1904 thesis "The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". However if you're really interested, Ferguson explores this argument much more thoroughly in his 2003 New York Times article, Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor).
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