The Protestant work ethic

Surely one of the more controversial theories was that by Max Weber when he associated the rise of capitalism with the Protestant work ethic. Richard Tawney further consolidated this later.

Now in Vox wonk as I call it there is a small article that examines Cistercian catholic order in the early 11th Century.

This completely wipes out Weber's thesis you say. not at all. They say  That the Cistercians, a Catholic order, had this effect does not at all detract from the point that Weber made, and in fact our analysis leads us to expect that Protestant teachings resulted in a similar process of growth through cultural change.

Read it and enjoy.