German economic theory and Weberian sociology posed one question of capitalist survival

Evidence

Analyzing the history of the role of the protestant ethic andofthe religious prescriptions link.ed’toit,15for example, and developing the pure theory of competition, were two different aspects, or two complementary ways of posing and trying to resolve in a particular way the problem ofwhether or not capitalism could survive. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 903

Categorization

• XREF: Weber’s Protestant ethic thesis and pure competition theory as two faces of the same German problematic of capitalist viability.