The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber’s reflections on the Protestant work ethic. But that interpretation is clearly unsatisfactory, and cannot account for the dynamism of the deeply Catholic world of Renaissance Italy and Flanders.
以宗教区分经济的现代趋势受马克斯·韦伯对新教工作伦理的深思的刺激。但这一解读显然不能令人满意，也无法解释文艺复兴时期意大利和弗兰德斯等彻头彻尾的天主教地区的活力。