Protestant work ethic
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The Protestant work ethic — also known as the "Puritan work ethic" — is a biblically based teaching on the necessity of hard work, perfection and the goodness of labor. Protestant preachers preached on the goodness and the necessity of labor and its efficacious effect for humans personally and on Christian society as a whole. Protestant preachers saw this as a salve or a correction for original sin.
The term was first coined by Max Weber who was the “youngest” of the German Historical School. It is part of old American culture of the 1800s and is seen by some Americans as one of the cornerstones of national prosperity.
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- Article on the Protestant Ethic from EH.NET's Encyclopedia by economist Donald Freyde:Protestantische Ethik