Changes

Ferguson suggests that China is starting to supplant the West, but is doing it by becoming more Western. China is booting up several of Ferguson’s “killer apps” – especially the Protestant Work Ethic.<ref>[https://tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] by Hugh Whelchel</ref>}}

Ferguson suggests that China is starting to supplant the West, but is doing it by becoming more Western. China is booting up several of Ferguson’s “killer apps” – especially the Protestant Work Ethic.<ref>[https://tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] by Hugh Whelchel</ref>}}

=== Atheistic Japan and theistic morality ===

== Atheistic Japan and theistic morality ==

Scholars in the Weberian tradition have argued that a [[Protestant]]-like work ethic found in traditional Japanese religions provided a motivational force in the early stage of Japanese industrialization during the Meiji era. Such an argument is misleading in several respects. No clear evidence indicates that the work ethic is found in traditional Japanese religions. Moreover, an assumption that religion guided the direction of economic development in Japan is more apparent than real.  The Japanese business elite borrowed their work ethic from Europe, just as they borrowed the modern European technology.<ref>Moon H. Jo, "Japanese Traditional Values and Industrialization," ''International Social Science Review'' 1987 62(1): 3-13.</ref>

Scholars in the Weberian tradition have argued that a [[Protestant]]-like work ethic found in traditional Japanese religions provided a motivational force in the early stage of Japanese industrialization during the Meiji era. Such an argument is misleading in several respects. No clear evidence indicates that the work ethic is found in traditional Japanese religions. Moreover, an assumption that religion guided the direction of economic development in Japan is more apparent than real.  The Japanese business elite borrowed their work ethic from Europe, just as they borrowed the modern European technology.<ref>Moon H. Jo, "Japanese Traditional Values and Industrialization," ''International Social Science Review'' 1987 62(1): 3-13.</ref>