•Then, Weber also tried to understand why a rational economic system (capitalism) had developed in the West and why it had failed to develop in the rest of the world.
• He focused on religion in this process, and concluded that a rational religious system (Calvinism of Christianity) played the central role in the rise of capitalism in the West.
• In contrast, more irrational religious systems (e.g. Confucianism, Hinduism) is popular in the rest of the world, and they constricted the development of capitalism.