I’ve been saying this since I first looked at the evidence in 1983. The false nature of this thesis is recently well evidenced in a Congressional hearing. S71022-20132171-302668.pdfs
Just for my records.
Joyce Appleby: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jerry Z. Muller: The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought