Support
There has been a revitalization of Weber's interest, including the work of
Lawrence Harrison,
Samuel P. Huntington, and
David Landes. In a
New York Times article, published in June 8, 2003,
Niall Ferguson pointed that data from the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) seems to confirm that "the experience of Western Europe in the past quarter-century offers an unexpected confirmation of the Protestant ethic. To put it bluntly, we are witnessing the decline and fall of the Protestant work ethic in Europe. This represents the stunning triumph of secularization in Western Europe—the simultaneous decline of both Protestantism and its unique work ethic."