🏴 "Hume saw Protestant theology—especially the more enthusiastic strains of English Puritanism—as having fortuitously shifted the landscape of political and economic sensibilities in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by affecting believers’ political, social, and economic psychologies."
Matson EW. HUME ON THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH COMMERCIAL SPIRIT. Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Published online 2024:1-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000585 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Study #DOI #History #Economics #HistoryOfEconomics #Philosophy #DavidHume #England #Europe #Protestantism #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy @historyofeconomics @earlymodern