Damian Thompson, Has the theory of the Protestant work ethic just collapsed?

Catholic and Protestant cities, though different in many respects, both became economically dynamic over the centuries – thanks, mostly, to the benefits associated with the emergence of the modern nation state, something that post-Counter Reformation Catholic rulers nurtured alongside their Protestant opposite numbers.

Did the accumulation and centralization of economic power occur equally in Catholic and Protestant polities?

Davide Cantoni