Abstracts
Résumé
Max Weber introduit l’idée que le système capitaliste de production s’est développé dans les communautés calvinistes du XVIIe siècle les rendant plus prospères que les communautés catholiques contemporaines, et ce grâce à l’apport indispensable d’un « esprit de capitalisme » fondé sur une éthique calviniste austère étrangère au catholicisme. Cette théorie demeure un point de référence incontournable auprès des chercheurs depuis bientôt cent ans. L’objet de cet article est de présenter une synthèse des contributions théoriques et empiriques qui ont marqué, surtout au cours des cinq dernières décennies, l’évolution de la recherche sur ce thème. Nous situerons ces contributions dans le courant progressiste de l’évolution de la pensée économique sur ce sujet, afin de mieux apprécier les nouvelles orientations de la recherche dans ce domaine.
Abstract
Max Weber argued that the capitalist system of production emerged in the Calvinist communities of the XVII century and made them more prosperous than the contemporaneous catholic communities, because they developed a “spirit of capitalism” based on a Calvinist ethic unfamiliar to Catholicism. His theory has opened new perspectives and has stimulated research for the last hundred years. This paper presents a contextualized review of the theoretical and empirical contributions that marked the advancement of research on this topic, more particularly during the last five decades. We position these contributions in the broader context of the evolution of economic thought in this field in order to appreciate the new orientation of research in this regard.
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