[mercnet]

Sounds like an interesting read, do you have link to the article?

[nashashmi]

My introduction to this was:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-chosen-few-a-ne...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/jewish-literacy-as-the-r...

[gauthr]

The article was probably based on this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...