Essays in Economic SociologyThe writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus. |
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... produce works in economics ( as the discipline was conceived in Germany at the time ) , and in 1893 he received a call from the University of Freiburg to become a professor of economics ( Na- tionalokonomie und Finanzwissenschaft ) ...
... produce a new interdisciplinary type of economics but to use several different disciplines in analyzing economic phenomena . Weber's ideas on economic sociology undoubtedly represent his most inno- vative contribution to economics , but ...
... produce one single article in eco- nomic theory during these years . If we want to get a sense for how Weber viewed ... production , " and " income , " show that Weber saw both the historical and the analytical traditions essential for ...
... production could be determined and derived from consumer needs ( " goods of higher order , " in Menger's ter- minology ) . See Weber , Grundriss zu den Vorlesungen über allgemeine ( " theoretische " ) Nation- alokonomie ( 1898 ) , pp ...
... produce a guide to the different aspects of eco- nomics as well as modern capitalism ( see fig . 3 ) . Weber's understanding of so- cial economics comes out most clearly in the first of the book's five major parts , 58 According to ...
Contents
Modern Capitalism Key Characteristics and Key Institutions | 43 |
The Spirit of Capitalism | 52 |
The Market | 75 |
The Beginnings of the Firm | 80 |
Class Status and Party | 83 |
CAPITALISM LAW AND POLITICS | 97 |
The Three Types of Legitimate Domination | 99 |
The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy | 109 |
The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit | 157 |
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism | 168 |
Kinship and Capitalism in China | 179 |
The Caste System in India | 185 |
Charity in Ancient Palestine | 189 |
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY | 197 |
Sociological Categories of Economic Action | 199 |
The Area of Economics Economic Theory and the Ideal Type | 242 |
The Rational State and Its Legal System | 116 |
The National State and Economic Policy Freiburg Address | 120 |
The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization | 138 |
CAPITALISM CULTURE AND RELIGION | 155 |