Individualism,Calvinism,Capitalism

Max Weber's celebrated (and derided) thesis about the link between capitalism and calvinism still lives on.There is no smoking gun to decisively prove the thesis but there is tantalizing circumstantial evidence. Here is a review of a biography of the celebrated mogul , philantropist and strikebreaker Andrew Carnegie. He is a vintage specimen of the capitalist/calvinist ethos, and though a disciple of the now forgotten Herbert Spencer he came toAmerica from Scotland ,a Calvinist country http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201097.html