The Protestant ethic turns 100

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WHEN MAX WEBER, TOGETHER WITH EDGAR JAFFÉ AND WERNER SOMBART, took over the editorship of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik in the summer of 1903, he was faced with an unexpected dilemma: On the one hand, Weber had stated in the editorial for the first volume of the Archiv for which the new team of editors was responsible that no topic was more important for them than the investigation of the historical role and the theoretical implications of capitalism.