The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism the Haugian way
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On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural
industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-
1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. It also tries to map
entrepreneural activities by his followers. The paper concludes that these activities
must have played a decisive role for the economic development in Norway during the
nineteenth century.