Buku karya Max Weber ini membahas tentang hubungan antara Reformasi Protestan dengan kebangkitan kapitalisme,
The first part of the book, focuses on the comparative analysis of the performance of the alternative institutional regimes. Part II, discusses institutional change, and focuses on the post-Communist transition, started in the late 1980s.
The original volume grew out of a seminar taugh by Mitchell Sellingson at the University of Arizona. In preparing for the seminar while on sabbatical at the University of Essex in England, he recognize that there was a great deal of research addressing the two questions posed above, and he attempted to organized that material for his students. In addition, the most recent theoretical and empiri…