Essays in Economic SociologyPrinceton University Press, 1999 M09 5 - 314 pages The 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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... especially important terms have been silently made consistent , and of course , the footnotes have been renumbered to run continuously within each excerpt . Editorial interpolations in the text , mostly of an explanatory nature , are ...
... especially to show how he at- tempted to develop his economic sociology as part of a broader vision of eco- nomics , what he himself called " social economics , " or Sozialökonomik . To com- plete the picture , I will also comment on ...
... especially dur- ing World War I and the years immediately afterward . At one point he nearly got appointed envoy of the new German republic to Vienna , and later on he almost became secretary of state for the interior . In 1919 he also ...
... especially to highlight the theme of social economics or Sozialokonomik in Weber's work . I will show how Weber's vision of a broad economics slowly emerged , and also discuss his con- tributions to each of the three constitutive fields ...
... especially the idea that economics is a very broad sub- ject and needs to draw on several distinct social sciences , such as economic the- ory , economic history , and economic sociology ? That Weber already in the 1890s saw economics ...
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 |