A review by matteo_of_eld
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman

informative slow-paced

3.0

This book is extremely mid but is also valuable as a history of Protestantism and Conservativism in the US as Capitalism coalesced into the world-wide nightmare it is. My biggest beeves here are that this author, like most pro-capitalist economists, seems incapable with engaging with material reality (though to his credit i think he genuinely believes in capitalism as "good" ideology unlike the scum from the Chicago school); and he barely engages with his own thesis in even an academic way.