دانلود کتاب Religion and Economic Action

Dr Samuclsson's book is the first major discussion of the subject
to come from Sweden and the latest entrant to the lists.
The author is an economic historian whose publications include
a study of the Stockholm merchant houses in the 18th century
and a history of the big Stockholm department store, N.K.
(Nordiska Kompaniet), as well as various articles, some of
which have appeared in English;1 he is also known to a wider
public in Sweden as an active journalist, and for his commentaries
on current affairs on radio and television. The present
work was published in Swedish in 1957 under the title Ekonomi
och Religion. It will have none of Weber and little of Tawney.
A bold and hard-hitting essay in interpretation rather than a
detailed monograph, it asks the central question: was there any
connection between Protestantism and economic progess? 'Did
such a clear correlation,' he asks, 'exist between Protestantism
and economic progress that there is any reason to enquire into
cause and effect at all?'