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om the standpoint of purely eudaemoninistic [happiness-oriented] self-interest" (Weber, 1992, p. 78). That kind of dedication may not have been the cause of capitalism in history, but it is consistent with capitalism's preoccupation with material aspects of experience, as well as with the Puritan identification of the experience of worldly prosperity with God's favor. Later Weber says that the "calling" notion that resulted in "rational conduct" characteristic of capitalist social organization ad market protocols, evolved from "the spirit of Christian asce

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