Economics and social reality: Professor O’Neil and the problem of culture Available to Purchase

Examines the relationship between economics and culture. Discusses the role of Protestantism, Calvanism and Catholicism in the affluency of societies. Refers to the article by D.J. O′Neil in this issue which discusses the works of Horace Plunkett, Edward Banfield and George Foster, who applied Weberian analysis of culture to the problem of societies which fail to become affluent. Compares Marxist and Weberian theories of society and economics.