Bourgeois. The Jews and economic life

Than is generated by the entrepreneurial spirit that is the driving force of modern capitalism? In the same degree endowed them with different people? How religion affects the economy? The answers to these questions become relevant again to Russia in the late XX century, gives in his book "Bourgeois" of the famous German sociologist Werner Sombart. The book is printed by the Russian edition of 1924.

In the monograph "Bourgeois", the author comes to the conclusion about the outstanding role of Jews in the development of modern capitalism, recognizes their ancestors such speculative financial mechanisms of economic governance, securities, banks and exchanges. The role of Jews in economic development he devoted special work "the Jews and economic life" which as part of this collection reissued for the first time since 1912.