Word: tawney
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Died. Richard Henry Tawney, 81, influential British economic historian whose books (Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, The Acquisitive Society, Equality) helped shape the thinking of two generations of Labor Party theorists; in London. A descendant of British freeholders who fought for Cromwell and Parliament, he was a passionate believer in equality, turned down an army commission and fought instead as a sergeant in World War I, later spurned a peerage, lived as a gentle, absent-minded professor. He left his intellectual mark on hundreds of workers, whom he ardently taught in night classes, condemning the ethics of capitalism while...
...reward-success. Thrift, he argued, was also a peculiarly Protestant virtue, and the combination of these qualities naturally produced capital. Weber quoted Methodism's founder, John Wesley: "Religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches.'' British Economist Richard H. Tawney further developed Weber's ideas in his well-known Religion and the Rise of Capitalism...